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‘We need fundamental changes’: US doctors call for universal healthcare

More than 2,000 physicians want a single-payer system similar to Canada’s and say the Affordable Care Act didn’t go far enough. By Olga Oksman.

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  • Gozzin
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    We would have to abolish the insurance companies, there is no way around that,” Himmelstein said. The employees at the private insurance companies would be retrained for other jobs, he explains, and receive job placement assistance. The insurance CEOs, who earn multimillion dollar salaries, would not get comparable job placement, Himmelstein said wryly.

    And insurance companie,s throwing money in the right pockets, will make sure this never happens.

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    • AdelleChattre
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      Oh, I don't know. Seems like anyone that chooses to stand in the way of an oncoming train's going to have some reckoning to do, however it works out in the end.

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      • Gozzin
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        So,how do we get all those ceo's onto the tracks and find a blind conductor? ((Evil chortle))

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