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Re:The Socialist Calculation Debate by danaris on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:32PM (#35777938)
Are you sure it was 1968? And not, say, 1973? The year Nixon signed the HMO Act into law, and brought about a massive expansion of for-profit health insurance?
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Re:The Socialist Calculation Debate by WillPostForFood on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:42PM (#35778075)
The HMO act created in response to rising health care costs, Whether it helped or hurt, the problem was already existent.
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Re:The Socialist Calculation Debate by WalterBright on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:53PM (#35783178)
Medicare and Medicaid started up in 1968.
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