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Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a... by mmastrac on Monday May 04, 2015 @10:21AM (#9486259)
That's an absolutely ridiculous statement. As a Canadian myself, we are constantly seeing the struggle to reduce the cost of providing health care as a proportion of the taxes we pay.

I don't know where this myth comes from -- is it just a misunderstanding of how public health care works, assuming that it's an infinite money pit?

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Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a... by Frondo on Monday May 04, 2015 @11:05AM (#9486580)
It comes from buying into the anti-government propaganda that the hard right has been pumping out for decades.

Once you buy into that, you start applying that faulty reasoning to the real world, and you come up with afactual claims like the original poster did.

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Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a... by emodendroket on Monday May 04, 2015 @10:25AM (#9486291)
It comes from motivated reasoning.
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Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a... by ams6110 on Monday May 04, 2015 @11:18AM (#9486677)
Medicare has an incentive to keep prices low, which is demonstrated by the fact that in many (most?) cases it reimburses providers at less than their cost.

Perversely, it also raises costs by increasing demand for medical care.

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