Classic move by the low cost option… Kaiser sucks!!!
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How is your Trumpcare doing?
Taking care of everybody, and very cheap? 
It’s getting worse. I bet some of the homeless coming our way are a washout patients from another states that can’t support to have them institutionalized.
The government is going to be paying more $ for less insured Americans.
Trumpcare is the same lie as TPP. Or begging the military for funds for the wall paid for by Mexico? 
The liar is breaking again, another campaign promise. Dishonest people can’t change, don’t they?
Cities are simply giving up and sending the homeless or sick to the Fab 7x7 because we are so accepting. The fact is, we can’t continue to take them all in. We already spend a ginormous amount of servicing the homeless. Expecting a city sized 7x7 to be the answer to a national crisis is ridiculous.
There’s not as many homeless in SF as you think. Here’s a chart with the number of homeless in various cities. SF is #7.
SF just doesn’t take care of them as well, although they spend a ton of money on them.
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Send them on a permanent vacation In Mexico. They are spending $40k per homeless person. Rest homes in Mexico cost $18k per year. For the healthy it is half that. Jails are even cheaper…We can pay Mexico to take care of them
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Healthcare costs will bankrupt America unless we ration care (like socialized countries do) or convince people to live healthier. There’s no way costs are going lower when 50% of people have a chronic condition.
It was supposed to be just a nose job… yeah, right
I am dying here!
I almost peed in my pants!
Paul is scheduled for surgery at Shouldice Hospital, which touts itself as a world leader in ‘non-mesh hernia repair.’”
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Would have cost 5x that # in USA?
The hernia procedure is estimated to cost $5,000 to $8,000, the court document said.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/01/14/us/ap-us-rand-paul-assaulted.html
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Also, it’s private hospital, so it’s not part of universal healthcare. It’s amazing that countries with universal care are starting to have more and more private care options. They are literally going to more of a US model. Meanwhile, we want to change to the model they are abandoning.
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My point was US healthcare cost is extremely high compared to other developed countries providing similar OR better quality and outcomes.
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That’s not really a surprise. Healthcare professionals are Canada are paid a lot less. The US also has strict rules on what each level of healthcare practitioner can do. Plus, there’s the lawsuits and cost of malpractice insurance. If you have more people in the OR and they are all paid more money, then it’s not surprising the procedure costs more.
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But, the idiots somewhere said in Canada everything is “socialism”, so you need to wait years to get anything done. That’s why Canadians come to the US 
Please, I am using my last depends!
By the way, any idea when we are going to get the “new healthcare”?
You know, the “I’m gonna take care of everybody even if it cost me the election” healthcare, the reason this topic was created?
" Great coverage for a fraction of the price" 
Dude, you’ll be lucky to get back the old government anytime soon…how you like them chops???
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You mean when we didn’t have to know what the presidents were signing, what they were doing, we knew it
by congress voting on real legislation?
I don’t think ever!
But right now, it’s cold, I am running out of pop corn, so, I am drinking my hot Covefefe with a fat hamberder. 
This is embarrassing.
GOP is all about giving away money, or saving it? Calling for a friend here
You know, they are the conservative bunch of hypocrites, right?
Well, they are giving away a wall every year. Yes, about $12 BILLION to the insurance companies!
Legal experts thought that one of President Trump’s cruder attacks on the Affordable Care Act would come back to bite him once the courts took a crack at it.
Court rulings have flooded in over the last few weeks, and the experts are right. The cost to the government could be $12 billion a year, payable to health insurers who were cheated by Trump’s action. <----------