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MaineBlueBear

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17. I hear you. However

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2025, 09:33 PM

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Health care and health insurance are not the same thing.

As long as we have a for-profit health insurance industry we're going to have this problem.

If we started taxing the wealthy properly we could pay for it all. We are the richest nation in the world.

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I didn't say or mean to imply anyone was.... anciano Tuesday #12

And it sets the limits for all kinds of things... slightlv Tuesday #13

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This may sound like a dumb question, but who has "thrown away" the ACA as an issue? Martin Eden Tuesday #10

That it wouldn't work angrychair Tuesday #20

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Respectfully angrychair Wednesday #22

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