Most US jobs created since 2005 are not conventional full-time work

Re:Most US jobs created since 2005 are not conventional full... by snowwrestler on Thursday October 26, 2017 @03:03AM (#15556927)

Water, food, clothing, and shelter are all more important to people not dying in the streets than health care, and we don't have government single-payer versions of any of those.

So I agree with the parent: it's not enough to just say that health care is important, therefore it should be single payer. There are too many counter examples for such a simple argument to pass muster. Discussions of health care policy need to start with a detailed and honest accouting of the health care market specifically.

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Re:Most US jobs created since 2005 are not conventional full... by wvenable on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:20AM (#15559024)

> Water, food, clothing, and shelter are all more important to people not dying in the streets than health care

And nearly all governments provide countless services from welfare, public housing, shelters, the foster care system, food stamps, etc for that as well.

Society has already made the decision about socialized healthcare; the only real question is how to implement it. The current implementation where you have socialized healthcare but deny it's existence is the worst possible and least efficient system.

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