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Just dig a little deeper and you will quickly find that they are there.

Much better

Come on, you can make better jokes than that. Kinda weak

Seems like they agreed with Turley and voted Against a sham impeachment.

A wrongful conviction would not have made sense.

Noted Liberal constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley says otherwise.

Starts to make one wonder if Carl is making up sources and embellishing to stay relevant.

A little brevity is needed

Here you go. Some responses. https://www.mediaite.com/news/gop-senators-named-by-bernstein-frantically-deny-being-anti-trump-in-private-insist-they-are-totally-behind-lame-duck-president/

You are covered for exactly what you were talking about. If you develop cataracts, your insurance plan will cover its portion of the surgery. And you didn’t even need the good insurance. The bad ones do too And VSP which covers a prescription is very cheap. I’m guessing a couple dollars a month ( or less than one Starbucks latte a month)

Ummm..less than 60 day wait for basically free eye surgery isn’t really an extreme wait time. Especially considering that what time is less than the Canadian and European model.

Are you talking about VSP (Vision insurance) or are you talking about medical insurance? 2 vastly different things.

What right wing media? I read a decent amount and hear/know very little about Qanon.

Not sure what your saying here? You wouldn’t be covered by ophthalmic surgery or other treatments. Probably closer to 60 days. They would be covered by Medicaid or even free clinic surgery.

Correct

I think I’m the only person you disagree or pushback on. Must be group think.

Your articles don’t actually say what you think they say. Especially take a look at the last one. here is an example of the most common surgical procedure in the US and compare it to NHS and Canada. https://www.statista.com/statistics/488173/cataract-surgery-waiting-time-elective-procedure-united-kingdom/ here is another study https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aos.13439#aos13439-sec-0005-title and here is Canada. And just to be clear. This wait time is just for the initial visit by the Ophthalmologist after getting referral from the PCP, not even talking about the actual surgery. In the US, a patient can see an ophthalmologist, get diagnosed with clinically significant cataract surgery and be on the table within 30 days.

Ok! Continue on with group think and patting each other on the back.

He is criticized for not buying the test from an American company that had them available for cheaper at the exact same time as the WAPO article clearly suggests. for your second paragraph: you follow things closely it seems, so you know that it was a CDC decision on why the US didn’t use WHO tests. Go back and even look at Fauci comments from that time. Geesh talk about me moving goalposts, having a narrative, etc...

As are you.

Also from your article Canada, though, isn’t much of a medical tourism hotspot for Americans… or even for people from other countries. “We don’t have nearly as much incoming medical tourism as we do departing medical tourism,” said Amy Zarzeczny, an associate professor in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. “Although robust data is difficult to obtain, the sense is that more Canadians leave Canada to receive care elsewhere than we have individuals coming here from outside the country for medical care.”

From your article: Paul added in the interview that he chose Shouldice because it offers the surgery that he needed at the right price. The hospital specializes in hernia repair using natural tissue rather than artificial mesh. The Louisville Courier Journal reports that the procedure in Canada will cost an estimated $5,000 to $8,000. According to Healthcare Bluebook, a hernia repair in the United States costs between $3,421 and $12,365, or up to $19,179 for a laparoscopic repair. those costs are comparable. Lower and high ends in the US. Also from your article: Why Paul is going to Canada The story, though, turned out to be much less sensational than the initial hype — Paul will be visiting a private hospital and paying out-of-pocket. Shouldice Hernia Hospital in Thornhill, Ontario, isn’t entirely private. It also treats Ontario residents who are covered under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan. Paul struck back at critics saying that his was a free market decision. “I’m actually choosing capitalistic medicine because they only take cash from foreigners,” he told the Louisville Courier Journal.

What talking points, and what healthcare mega corporations? we all go to doctors for various reasons. A nice challenge for everyone would be to ask every doctor they see, if they would prefer to practice medicine in a M4A/Canada/European medical model or the system we currently have and keep adjusting it for the better if adjustments are needed. I see 60 plus in a given month and I think 2 or 3 have said they would prefer that model and those are salaried/employed by a hospital system

I think the real issue is that Gov Hogan could have had 5 billion tests available and it wouldn’t have mattered. The capacity to process those tests wasn’t there yet, and that was the main issue. testing wasn’t fabulous in the beginning. Processing capacity wasn’t fabulous in the beginning. Doctors treating patients in the beginning wasn’t fabulous. It was a Novel Virus. It takes time to develop. We have been near the top country of tests per 1,000 people since May and currently blow every other country out to the water in test per 1,000 people.