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Originally Posted by americanlover
SO this means if the economy isnt spending like it normally is... thats nots good...
if the shelves stay full then the businesses cant expand and produce jobs for the rest of us.
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I don't know where you got your economics education, but one thing a little study will tell you is that Americans are going to buy whether they're paying for health care or not. Gas has hit $3.50 a gallon on average. Americans are still spending. In the past, real estate hit ridiculous proportions. Americans still bought. Prices are about 10x now what they were 30 years ago. Americans are still buying. You see, companies and marketers know something that you seem to be missing. They have found something that is relatively constant in economics, and that is the behavior of the American consumer.
Americans are used to a certain standard of living that they will not give up just because they are paying a couple of hundred dollars a year more for their health care. They will still buy the things they were going to buy anyway.
I don't know about you, but I generally don't buy the things I don't need anyway. So I'm not going to be cutting back on anything, since I generally need what I buy. I suspect far more Americans are exactly the same than not. In fact, If I pay for health care up front, it's going to cost me less in the long run, and I'll have MORE money to spend at America's retail hog trough.
But this is all pissing up a rope. None of the current candidates have proposed anything resembling a single-payer, government-run health program despite what your favorite fear-mongering radio-head is telling you. What the candidates are proposing is aimed at lowering costs and giving access to coverage for those that cannot currently afford it. Other than that, your precious system, fucked up and broken as it is, is safe. Doctors aren't going to quit and go do something else. Pharma companies are still going to do R&D and roll out new products and flood the airways with impotency ads. So your McDonald's fiend wanting "liposucktion" will still have to pay for it out of his own pocket, since that's a voluntary procedure. And I suspect it would remain so under any government plan since I know of no insurance plans that currently pay for it.