Upper left front page. But yea, I wonder why we don’t get a PPtweets-size headline. Strange caution.
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Might be afraid their site will crash from about 200 posts a minute.
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Deader than doornails.
hee hee hee!!!
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Most of those items address problems we have controlling costs in health care. The old model was aimed at bandaids. The ACA was aimed at changing life styles. This is a return to old style insurance. The changes will literally cost society trillions while making sure we don’t see any improvement in our overall health. Thanks Trump, this is truly stupid.
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TRuMPCARE: Proudly offering everyone equal opportunity to go bankrupt.
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No abortions, no birth control, no maternity care. So emergency rooms will be overrun by women giving birth. Maternal death rate will,increase as will babies not living or filing to thrive, more unwanted pregnancies, more poverty. Stick it to the women. Yet another morning to be outraged.
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The good old days.
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No, the UK has a public health insurance system because we’re not idiots. We spend far less per capita on our health and get way better results than you. We keep getting rated as being one of the best in the world while the US is rated as one of the worst. So weird that you seek to use the NHS as an insult in a forum as educated as this one. I bet everyone here has read the Commonwealth Fund’s definitive report on the matter.
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2017/jul/mirror-mirror-international-comparisons-2017
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The good old days when my mom had 8 unplanned pregnancies.
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So the article says:
“It could take days for consumer groups, insurers, benefits experts and others to assess the potential impact of the proposal. ”
But somehow the Clap understands every last detail so can pronounce on what the effect will be. Because the current system is so damn perfect that any tinkering will lead to a worse outcome. 
Donald (“No We Can’t”) Trump.
The only government death panel America needs.
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The effect is pre-ordained.
Shitty straw man, Ukkie Brissovitch.
As usual, a massive fail for you.
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It is odd that most Americans still have their healthcare linked to their employment. From the standpoint of overall systemic costs, it’s expensive and inefficient. With half of employees now on gig-economy status, benefit portability, the traditional issue for employees changing jobs, isn’t even relevant. Issue a card to everybody, pay for it out of the tax base, and if employers want to offer enhanced coverage to attract the best employees, by all means. The system could even be extended to legal residents and international students with a grace period of, say, 12 months.
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The Japanese thought the same thing about bombing Pearl Harbor.
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You talking about the NHS which your present Parliament is trying desperately to change up into a health service that ‘works’ like the US system? That one? The one that they’ve been slowly cutting funds from and privatizing?
Yeah, your country really cares about its citizens if it’s willing to go so far as to break the NHS and turn it into a mirror image of the US ‘health’ system.
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You’re pretty much describing the UK system. A portion (11%) of the personal tax everyone pays on their income is for national health insurance, and you don’t worry about it. But you can get a top up if you want it with private health insurance, either personally or through schemes run by some employers.
That’s pure fiction. Who on earth told you that? They’re idiots or lying to you. There’s total consensus in mainstream politics in the UK on the core way the healthcare system operates and is funded. Having said that, we also want to borrow the best ideas from around the world. Some of the actual health provision in the US is very good for rich people, so we want to find ways to implement that for everyone here. But nobody in their right mind wants to move to a US a style healthcare system. Your country is an exemplar in How not to do it.
Umm, the last time I looked, the BBC and a few of your publications that aren’t the Daily Fail. They even pointed out the fact that the Brexiteers stated that the money saved by leaving would put something like 330 million pounds back into your NHS. Which was a complete pile of bullshit.
But hey, maybe you like the idea of your NHS being sold off to the highest bidder. It seems that your present government and ours have a lot in common.
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Not to worry.
All the Trumpsters and born-agains will be lining up to adopt these children and teach them to hate as they do.
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