Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All Bill EXPLAINED" video.

  1. ordinary, it doesn't matter if they're paying taxes or not. They shouldn't even be here.
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  2. "And why shouldn't we!" If you don't even know, don't preach.
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  3. Split your base? Fine by me.
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  4. Slave2Paper, we already spend more on medicare and medicaid than military.
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  5. "Trump has made it rather clear he doesn't want anyone who isn't white to have any rights, much less living here." Oh my. That has to be the most ignorant thing you've said so far. "Also why should they be deported? Have they done anything to you specially? Did an immigrant shoot your dog? Steal your car? Rape your man? Or are you just jealous that they are more successful than you are?" ILLEGAL immigrant. I have no issue with immigrants, and to many conservatives chagrins, even if they're from a gasp predominantly Muslim nation. We're a free nation. We don't want 1984, and that's why we support freedom and rights as a matter of strong principle. Now did they do anything to me? No. But they are stealing opportunity from their fellow countrymen and others who want to come here to go to school, work, attain citizenship, etc. and are going through the process and paying the fees to do it legally. By their actions, they also promote others, families even, to partake in the highly dangerous activity of having themselves smuggled into the nation rather than having the opportunity to come here legally stolen from them. "Unless they are a criminal then there is no reason to deport them..." If they stole opportunity from someone paying and doing work to come here as an alien by illegally entering the US, then yes, they are a criminal.
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  6. Oh, sorry, did I say 1/3rd? I meant 1/5th. Medicare and Medicaid alone cost more than our defense spending.
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  7. You idiots being fed lies you actually believe. The US spends about 1/3rd of its budget on defense. Over half of our budget is already spent on welfare programs.
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  8. Nite, socialism is the public ownership of the means of production. You're confusing socialism with society, both having the same root linguistically but entailing very different things.
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  9. You could say.... he's spittin' mad.
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  10. Aaron, you're just dumb if you think that the general welfare is a principle exclusive to socialism. And since you have a problem with comprehending what you read, I need to point out what gets that general welfare: the United States. That does not equate to Ol' Bob down the street making you pay for his new hip that's just going to cause more problems than it cures.
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  11. I've told no lies, but you'll believe what you want.
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  12. Aaron, we already spend more on Medicare and Medicaid than we spend on the military.
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  13. level, something these people don't understand is that learning is a right, but being taught by someone is a privilege.
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  14. Aaron, I can't take away another person's right to learn. That shows how little you understand here. You had the privilege of having someone there willing to teach you for pay. That is different from "being privileged". That is also different from a right. If no one wanted a teaching job, would you threaten someone's life to get them to teach you because it's your "right"? Of course not. That's why being taught is not a right, but a privilege.
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  15. Aaron, your brother-in-law is the ADA? Huh. That's interesting. I have a feeling you're lying.
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  16. BM, I bet you're wrong. Global warming is happening, I tend to agree that man is contributing to it, and I think that we should deal with it, but not by attacking industry. I want Trump to do what is best, and that's about the most support that any president or congressman gets from me. Now you're all off on a diatribe of leftist propaganda against conservatives. -We welcome foreigners happily, but you need to do it legally and you need to go home on time or do your responsibility to get a legal extension. -Progressivism isn't viewed as evil. In fact, progressives view anyone who isn't progressive as evil (such as you being a progressive with accusations of racism, intolerance and xenophobia). We think that progressivism is a movement predicated by ignorance and misguided and shallow idealism. -The US brings to the table the most medical advancements per year, partly because we're pretty much the only nation left with $2 trillion flowing through its medical industry. This attracts many of the greatest minds in the world together. -Conservatives do not believe the government does not have the right to (and no one has the right to) slave labor. You do not get my money to pay for someone else to do something for you. You do not get the government to force someone to work for you. Your rights in medicine end in what you can do for yourself. Everything else is privilege, whether it's a drug manufacturer giving you a $60,000 cure for Hep C for free or doctors and nurses donating their time at a free clinic.
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  17. BM, you didn't read my entire post. I'm not surprised given how ignorant you are that you have a problem with reading completely. Simply put: We have healthcare coverage for everyone. If anyone is lacking in getting medical care, it's not because it's not offered.
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  18. BM, forcing an industry to die is attacking it. Happening by virtue of better options being used is free market.
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  19. BM, the implication here is that the medical care someone needs is free is they can't afford it. You're thick because you're so deep in your own thinking that you can't see any other way.
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  20. Gilfoyle, you're right that you shouldn't be forced to provide health insurance. We should get rid of that requirement. Full stop. It should be part of a compensation package because it's competitive, not because it's being coerced. The employee should pay both halves of the insurance if he wants it.
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  21. Mexica, we spend 20% of our budget on defense. We spend over half of the budget on social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment insurance and welfare.
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  22. ANony Mouse, according to Pew Research, respondents show that Republicans don't want it, so Republican reps will faithfully represent their voters. We are not a direct democracy -- we are a representative democracy.
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  23. That doesn't matter ANony Mouse. As I said, we're a representative democracy, not a direct democracy.
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  24. ANony Mouse, absolutely I'm happy that the majority are not represented in the government, because that's exactly what the US was set up to prevent, short of a supermajority. The GOP isn't a dying party. Young people are always dominated by idealist leftists and the population tends to verge right the older they get. You just have no respect for wisdom. Numbers doesn't make something right. Some 90% of the world's population believes in a higher power. Does that mean they're right that one exists?
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  25. No, ANony Mouse, it's equality of the minority. And that sword cuts both ways, no matter who's in the minority. "I have every respect for wisdom, its a known fact that as you get older you lean more toward a conservative view. "Thats not wisdom that is just because as you get older, frail and more worried about yourself you get a more selfish outlook on life, understandably." I would argue that it's because you start experiencing how the world really works, rather than being naive and thinking you know how the world really works. I think that humans develop from having a myopic view to a farsighted one. If what you say is true, then there would be even more of the aging population who would vote Democratic since they want to give out things for free. "True but can you explain the numbers of countries of the western world that use a single payer type system?" Yes, because it technically can be afforded, but there's always a trade off. If I just decide on a whim to pick up a chocolate bar at the store's checkout line in 1980 for 50 cents instead of putting that into an investment, that chocolate bar eventually cost you $50 by today. There's always a trade off, and it's usually costly.
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  26. Praxis, demagogues? It's the liberals who are out on the streets attacking conservatives and making threats of violence to stop conservative gatherings or rallies on a daily basis. That's terrorism when you use terror to suppress your opposition's freedoms and rights. And the strawmen made by liberals are ridiculous. If a conservative says they want illegal immigrants to be deported, you twist it to mean all immigrants. That's going out of your way to lie just to cause division between people. It's like TYT's non-arguments that basically amount to, "They say illegal immigrants, but you know what they mean." And you fools just gobble that all up and think we're the demagogues based on the lies. As I told ANony Mouse, if aged conservatives were selfish, they'd vote for Democrats more because they'd be getting fatter social security checks, and the cost doesn't matter to them because they won't be paying taxes.
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  27. Praxis, maybe they will stay in majority, maybe they won't. It doesn't matter to me that much. They certainly don't have a supermajority. I could also say the same and say that Obama couldn't get gun legislation passed even after Newtown. In fact, in his entire two-term run, he passed two laws related to guns, and they relaxed infringements on, not infringed on, gun rights.
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  28. Yeah, Republicans are generally not ones for increasing medicare and social security spending.
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  29. Troy, you don't have a right to force someone to save you, sorry.
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  30. Right?
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  31. Van Brunt, go to a free clinic. They're everywhere.
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  32. Bernie isn't a real democrat though; he's a communist. You and his kind can't fathom what you're meddling in. Extremism is for the lower third of the intelligence bell curve. Let those of us who are in the center work together and you guys take your Bernie and antifa and anarchists and white nationalists and just go find someplace to play far away from anything important.
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  33. Praxis, it's also taking work (money) from others so your services can be paid for. "you are a special kind of stupid for thinking that doctors and pharmaceutical companies in America simply 'donate' their time." Are you saying they don't? "also, the government pays for 75% of all R&D. why are you so averse to facts and reality." Where are you getting your reality? A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that "the United States comprised 51 percent of global research spending, at $131 billion in 2007." NIH states they invest "nearly $32.3 billion annually in medical research for the American people." That looks like about 25%, not 75%.
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  34. Truncated for me, Madison? Considering I never said anything to the effect of assuming "that every who needs help doesn't deserve it," it seems like you're the one who needs a little help with fully reading and comprehending what someone said. Did you look at the 4-5 mesalamine alternatives?
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  35. Knowledge, it's not always about money. I support paying for things when I feel those things are beneficial in the long run.
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  36. Aaron, you're the only one here who is ignorant to what a republic is in practice and understanding why capitalism is the best system for a commodity-based society. Nations are not founded nor run by a bunch of blue collar workers. That's why we elect representatives in the US. We elect our elite class, because that's the class that will invariably take control anyway. That's just the nature of politics.
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  37. ShawFFA, can you sue a corporation? Yes? Congratulations, that's proof that a corporation has an aspect of separate personhood.
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  38. Alexander, I sue the people of Belgium, not the land. I sue the people of a corporation, not the building it's in or the legal documents that form it. I can't sue a building, a stack of papers, or a patch of dirt. I sue the people that give it its definition. I can't marry a company, but I can marry its leader of the board of directors.
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  39. We already have universal healthcare in the US. Just stop.
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  40. Nishanth, you don't have to be insured in the the US to get care for free. I don't know what mandate you're talking about.
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  41. Christopher: "Do its magic." You have it wrong; he has it right.
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  42. streglof, Gilead sells their cure for Hep C for $60,000. If you're poor, you can get it from them for free. Did you know that? I've helped a number of people get the treatment.
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  43. Edward, Shkreli's company offers their medication for free to those who need it.
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  44. Praxis, I've seen it happen time and time again. It exists despite your ignorance.
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  45. paradoxmo, "why should we limit care for people without health insurance to only free clinics?" For two reasons: 1. The use of free clinics does not gut the funds that drive our medical research, the last bastion of well-funded medical research in the world. 2. The use of free clinics does not cost anyone money. Those who are in need are privileged by the time donated to them by medical professionals and the resources and time donated by drug companies. "Isn't that disincentivizing people from seeking care (too far away, for example)?" If it's too much trouble to get on a bus (fare for which they can get for free from any social services office or even police stations), why would having to go to any clinic not be too far or too troublesome? Would not having doctors go to the poor people who need care disincentivize them from getting care? Free clinics are set up in areas convenient for as many needy people as possible. "So many" people get sick when they're unemployed here? So sick that "in a lot of cases" they can never return to work? I'm going to put you to task on that one. I don't believe what you're saying here for a second, considering the lion's share of people who find themselves unemployed are employed again within 5 weeks based on BLS data. If you have a sickness so bad that it prevents you returning to work, you get fast tracked to disability and medicaid, so there's no bankruptcy or credit problems.
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  46. Cetty, roads doesn't equate to healthcare. If you can't argue for healthcare itself without propping it up with something else, then just get out with your invalid arguments.
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  47. Cetty, that's not the definition of socialism, you fool. Socialism is the public ownership of the means of production. What the concern here is democratic socialism: that is, bringing about socialism by way of exploiting democratic process in a capitalist nation. This includes creating policy that crushes private industry, forcing the government to subsidize and thereby control that industry. See modern agriculture in the US as part of the fallout from the Dust Bowl to see an example of the effects of democratic socialism. It's like what Reagan said about the way the Democrats operate: If it moves, tax it. If it still moves, tax it more. If it stops moving, subsidize it. Cetty & Alexander, I really don't understand why I have to expound on why roads do not equate to healthcare, and why it's not sound logic to argue for one by referencing the other. No, I'm not going to think for you. Make two lists for me. In one list, how how roads and healthcare are alike. In another list, show how roads and healthcare are different. Go.
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  48. Pretty much, Listen. He thinks that being able to do a Google search for usernames to get real names makes him special.
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  49. Beaver, I'm sorry it's going over your head. Someone choosing to donate time and someone being forced by the government are two entirely different things.
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  50. Marble, they probably include any project that ever got a grant, which would be almost all. The lie which is allowed to be implied here is that the discovery is wholly paid for by the government, when the fact of the matter that billions of dollars in research to see a product to market may see a few hundred thousand granted by the government to help.
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  51. Alexander, that's quite the strawman you have built up there. Medicare and Medicaid assist those who fall through the cracks. It's only there as a final safety net for the disabled and retired. VA is an EARNED privilege. "In fact, in a recent Harvard study, 45,000 died each year due to lack of affordability of even basic health insurance." "Affordability" is such a loaded and ambiguous term. If someone dies due to lack of healthcare in this nation, it's not because the assistance isn't there to take advantage of. I would argue that weak patent laws for drug manufacturers that R&D their discoveries themselves lead to more deaths than anything. When the patent is up, the drug is sold by companies who don't offer the medication for free to those who need it like brand-name pharmaceutical companies do. Patents should be strongly protected for pharmaceutical companies just like patents for anyone else.
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  52. It'll bankrupt the country or force a single-payer system. Either way will go in this asshole socialist's favor.
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  53. First of all, the UK has a single-payer system which is what I said. The US medical system sees over $2 trillion move through it annually. You're saying that should be all paid by taxes. Laughable. Furthermore, healthcare isn't a right. You never have the right to receive services someone else pays for or someone else provides. It's a nicety, a privilege. The healthcare you have a right to is what you can do for yourself, and nothing more.
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  54. bob starr, what's wrong with it is that the US is the last bastion of non-single-payer systems in the world. We still have well over $2 trillion a year move through our medical system. It attracts the best and brightest minds from all over the world to come here and get a piece of that pie. For that, we provide the world with most of the medical developments, by far, of any other nation.
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  55. Harvey, that's not an argument, that's a cop out. Why even type anything if you don't even have anything of value to contribute to the conversation? I'll expect some cute little response back that still doesn't actually contribute anything of value to the conversation, but I hope you can prove me wrong.
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  56. Harvey, you need to spend more time learning about logic then. It's a shame you couldn't prove me wrong.
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  57. Again, Harvey, it's not an argument. It's a claim. Your claim is that what I said is bullshit. You provide no argument to support why you think my statements are bullshit. But this is going to be some boring trolling on your part -- I can already tell. Explaining such utterly simple things really isn't something that will get me involved.
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  58. Justin, just because someone makes a list doesn't mean it's actual rights. To say that I have a right to medical care is to say that I have the right to have someone else pay for me to receive a service or that I have a right to make someone else work for me. A human being does not have such rights. I have the privilege to have someone pay for me or I have the privilege that someone would donate their time for me -- I don't have the right to force either.
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  59. The healthcare in the US is not worse than single-payer countries have. I'm sure you're referencing those nice and tidy WHO lists and the like. I bet they would compare about equal to or a bit less to the US if they weren't so biased to government-funded healthcare. The fact of the matter is, everyone in the US has access to healthcare, whether they have insurance or not. That's because those who are professionals selflessly donate their time providing free clinics. Brand-name drug companies provide their medications for free to those who need it. If anyone in the US is not getting healthcare, it's by their own choice -- not by a lack of access.
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  60. There is no issue with affordability, Justin. That's implied with lack of access.
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  61. Harvey, you ever been poor? I have. Son in a single-mom household who was going to college. There is no issue of affordability if you're poor and need help. And this was in Texas no less. Free haircuts, free dental care, free medical visits, free food... All of this without taxpayer dollars.
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  62. Justin, you're just ignorant of the services offered because you're not poor.
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  63. You still haven't figured out how to form a valid argument.
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  64. bob starr, I disregarded the WHO list because they put far too much weight on government-funded healthcare. I didn't disregard it without reason. "because the numbers are bigger it cant be done" I never said that. "and if you take away outrageous private profits the curiosity of the doctors/scientists will diminish it was there before the the us cost more per capita than every other country and it will be there long after you stop" I didn't say it would cease to exist entirely. This is a strawman. I said that it would slow progress. Which it will. "give me the money i demand or die" Like I said, that's not the case at all. Brand-name pharmaceutical companies give their drugs away for free or low cost to those who need it and medical professionals willingly donate their time. Use punctuation please. It's obnoxious to try to read a paragraph without it.
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  65. Nite, socially funded programs does not equate to socialism nor communism. Learn your definitions.
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  66. Beaver, taxes are meant to pay for universally beneficial infrastructure. We already have healthcare access for everyone. We don't need the government to pay for it. The only reason the US rates low on your nice & tidy WHO lists is because they give a huge amount of weight to government-funded healthcare. If they didn't, we'd end up about the same as or better than other nations with single-payer systems.
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  67. Matthew, like I told Nite, you're confusing socialism and society. Same linguistic root, entirely different concepts.
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  68. Mark, the state of medical R&D in the US greatly exceeds that of any other single nation -- including Cuba. Our system also covers everyone through the privilege of donated time by professionals and donated time and product by brand-name pharmaceutical companies.
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  69. Beaver, that's what I said. You're forcing someone else to pay for what you get. In the US, medical professionals graciously donate their time and brand-name drug companies give their medications away for free to those who need it. No one has a right to emergency services. They're a privilege. You have a right to put out your fire, but you don't have a right to make someone else put out your fire.
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  70. We already spend over half of our budget on welfare -- you want to take from defense to give even more to welfare?
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  71. Jobri, yes, we do. % of our budget spent on social services: 21.41% SS 14.63% Medicare 7.55% Medicaid 11.79% Unemployment/Welfare ------------------ 55.38%
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  72. I think it's funny how you think poor people are dying for lack of access to medicine. Here's something to think about: If we provided everyone with completely free medical care (don't even have to apply for it) and a free home without having to apply and free food without having to do anything, there would still be poor people dying in the streets. Why? Because there is a significant portion of people that are utterly nuts. Many of them refuse to take their medications, refuse to seek medical help and refuse to find housing. Here's the thing. If I found someone with Hepatitis C, a deadly disease, I would do what I've done for all others with this disease: get them to a free clinic to get examined, help them apply for the medicine they need from Gilead pharmaceuticals -- which is a treatment regimen they usually charge $60,000 for, ensure they receive their medicine and see them cured. That's how we do universal healthcare in the US.
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  73. Jebus, the rich stole nothing, you communist. Jesus, that stole labor bullshit is straight out of the communist playbook. Try to at least not be wholly obvious.
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  74. You need to open your eyes. We have healthcare offered to everyone in the US, and for those who can't afford it, it's free. It doesn't cost taxpayer money. You just listen to the hype. Are they covered by insurance? No, but you don't have to be in the US.
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  75. Praxis, I grew up poor, single mom household and she was going to college much of that time -- in Texas no less. There is so much out there to help poor people by people who donate their time willingly to help those in need. If you don't know about these programs, there are two truths clear about you: 1. You were never poor. 2. You don't help these programs by donating your time.
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  76. Oh, and Praxis, even though I don't go out of my way to hide my real name online, it's still rude and childish of you to use it as a passive-aggressive power move online.
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  77. dipojones, there's these things called free clinics....
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  78. You'll believe only in your reality without any regard for objectivity. After all, you're the guy who believes that "the government pays for 75% of all [medical] R&D."
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  79. I hope that doesn't happen here, Ron. We already have access to healthcare for everyone. We don't need the government to be paying for it.
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  80. Or we realize that the over $2 trillion of the money that flows through our healthcare system leads to a number of medical advancements that, by far, outweigh any other nation by virtue of attracting the best minds willing to expat themselves for a piece of that pie. You have your system that doesn't cure Hepatitis C and charges everyone for curing someone else, while our system cures Hep C and then provides the cure for free to those who need it out of the kindness of the heart of those who make the regimen, costing taxpayers nothing and is voluntary on part of the manufacturer, not coerced into slave labor by government.
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  81. Jerry, we still come up with significantly more medical advancements than any other nation in the world, so whatever drug companies spend in marketing is clearly not impacting the bottom line. Drug companies do their own R&D. They don't get to patent other people's discoveries -- they only get to patent their own. And even then, we limit how long they can hold a patent on their discoveries, forcing them to recoup costs before the patent runs out. That means more dollars per sale. I've helped people get cures from US companies for free. Most recently, it's about getting help for people who don't have the income become cured of Hep C. This is a cure that Gilead, a US-based drug company, sells for $60,000 dollars. If you're interested to know, the drug is called Harvoni. The drug company has a program called HARVONI Support Path. It's used for needy people to get the medication they need to save their life for free. And guess what? It costs taxpayers nothing. Parasites, indeed. If you want to talk about parasites, let's talk about the seedy drug companies that create generics. They don't care if you can or cannot afford that $10 for their medication, you're going to pay it. They have no assistance programs, it's all about the bottom line for them. So don't tell me that what I'm saying is bullshit. You're just ignorant and need to learn.
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  82. Ola, it's happened in every nation that's gone to a single-payer system. When you dry up the well of funds, you dry up innovation.
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  83. "you're opposed to paying your fair share to combat climate change, but you're all for paying over the odds for company profits." There is no combating climate change; there is only preparing for it. Too many people are focused on impotently railing against nature. Mankind could completely stop contributing to global warming, and the Earth will still warm greater than it is today. Attacking industry isn't going to change that. "By your logic, the US consumer is subsidising lower costs to other countries who have single-payer." Yes, that's right. I've said exactly such in the past. "Britain's NHS pays around $1.75. And I can guarantee that most of Pfizer's prescription-drug profits will have been generated OUTSIDE the US." You can guarantee, but who are you? I don't see your proof. I wouldn't be surprised either way, but I'm quite sure that a significant portion of their income comes from the US, if it's not over half, and a greater portion than any other single nation. "A reason why Americans are price gouged is because they just charge whatever they want." Americans aren't price gouged. Americans purchase insurance. Those who can't afford insurance can rather easily get brand-name medications for no cost through the manufacturer. Did you get that from my original post? Like Gilead selling for $60,000 their cure for Hepatitis C and giving it away for free to those whose insurance doesn't cover it or who can't afford insurance to get it. It's called Harvoni Support Path.
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  84. Olly, we (the US) also provide the world with the most medical developments. We have over $2 trillion flowing through our medical system annually. That attracts the best and brightest minds from all over the world to one place to get a piece of that pie. And it's certainly not the UK. You're welcome for footing your bill while your nation's leaders show that you have a right to forcefully take someone's labor by way of the government.
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  85. ODIE, everyone has access to healthcare in the US -- it's just not funded by the government. It's a privilege extended through the donation of time by medical professionals and time and material by brand-name pharmaceutical companies.
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  86. jeff, the illegal immigrants should be deported to their home country, not provided with insurance.
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  87. Tyrannt, why? Do you even think? What's the reason that we should just welcome everyone who wants to come here without any process?
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  88. If you're talking about dreamers, that's a different matter as far as I'm concerned. But undocumented immigrants entails everyone who is in the country without going through the lawful process to gain entry. If as an adult you've come into the country illegally, whether you've had a kid or not, you go home and any kids born here become wards of the state. "And four, you want to make this about race?" Did I say something about race? And, FYI, immigration isn't based on race -- it's based on nationality. "Whites stole America From Native Americans..." The Native Americans didn't have immigration laws. They probably should have, huh? "If anyone should be deported it's anyone who thinks America is exclusively for Whites" You're bat shit crazy, aren't you? Who the hell ever said anything like this here?
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  89. Brighton, what's the state of medical R&D in Australia? It's nowhere near what you see in the US. It works if you support slave labor for a privilege. I don't. You have a right to healthcare as far as you can take care of yourself. You never have a right to force someone to work for you for free or force someone else to pay for your services. Those are privileges.
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  90. "Stealing opportunity? So you are just jealous that they are more successful than you are." Alright, when you start ignoring things in the name of your continued trolling, you really start losing my interest. It takes no skill on your part to just ignore key features of an argument, and it's boring for me to feed into that kind of trolling. At least try to use your brain. "Background check EXIST. All we need to do is use them on illegal immigrants to see if it's just to deport them, I think you'll find that more times than not it won't be." This isn't even coherent...
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  91. paradoxmo, all people do have access healthcare by way of the privilege offered by professionals donating their time in free clinics.
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  92. 60% of respondents =/= 60% of adults.
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  93. Harbinger, why don't you actually do some research to figure out how much the rich pay in taxes? You'd be surprised. It's not what either side of the debate says. It will typically land squarely at about 30% effective rate, and since they're rich -- especially corporations making billions (even some that make trillions) -- that's a hell of a lot more paid in taxes than you'll ever see in your entire life, even if you won the lottery.
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  94. Seen it. Don't want it.
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  95. Rob, we already have universal access to free healthcare and medication in the US. We don't need the government to pay for it. We don't need to gut out medical industry of money to do it. We don't need to pay extra taxes to do it.
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  96. Marble, I help people get dental care all of the time without a charge to them. And hip replacement? No one needs a hip replacement, and they're most likely much better off never getting one. That's like back surgery. Just deal with the sciatica, you're better off. The general rule of thumb is to never let them cut you unless your life is in danger. Even if we did have government-funded healthcare, why would we pay for something that has a 66% chance of either not improving someone's pain or making it worse?
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  97. It will just gut the last bastion of funding for medical research. The US spends over half of the WORLD'S expenditure on medical research, and that's mostly due to the trillions of dollars flowing through our system. We also have, by far, the most advancements in medical technology of any other nation because the brightest minds and most driven come here to work together in order to get a piece of that huge pie.
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  98. You two should go to the manufacturer's websites if you can't afford your medications and they're brand-name. They all have programs to help those in need get the medications at a reduced cost or free. But it's people like you who just throw your hands up and don't even bother researching what assistance there is available out there.
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  99. Shamrock, your name would be great for someone who has exactly 1% Irish in them.
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  100. streglof, there are these things called free clinics where people donate their time and money to treat those in need, including dental care and medications through programs offered for free by pharmaceutical companies.
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  101. Dollius, $1,200 a month? How many people are you paying for? That would be why.
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  102. Sales, Dollius said he pays $1,200 a MONTH for his healthcare through Kaiser.
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