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So, like he said, a majority of Americans have health care, even with your contorted definitions.


Two questions.

Saying the majority as in over 50.01% of the population has insurance is a very low bar. What percentage of the population without healthcare is a sign of a well functioning system to you?

Second, what suggest public funds going to heathcare is a sign of a well functioning private insurance model?


The reality is that by your own numbers you came up with a supermajority of US residents with health insurance, not 50.01%.


Great punt, but that just means you don’t want to answer the question.

Also, significantly less than 50% of the population has completely non publicly funded heathcare. It’s a really odd system when you start breaking down the numbers. We have surprisingly close to a 50/50 public private system, but people get wildly different amounts of public funding.


I do not, no, because I joined this part of the thread solely to point out that your rebuttal to Rayiner refuted itself, which, of course, it did.


Not really, Raynor said: 2/3 of people who don’t have Medicare

So he was excluding some but not all people who received government funded insurance. Which is why I was pointing out that was a very odd way of counting.




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