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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: onepoorguy 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Vote Republican, cut ACA
Date: 02/02/26 5:52 PM
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Is single-payer health care (Medicare for All) not an idea?

It absolutely is. One I support.

As an aside, I was watching a nurse react to "The Pitt". One comment he made that struck me was that nurses don't get paid very well, especially when one considers the expense to get the nursing education. He said the money never makes it down to the doctors and nurses. Which implies it's being intercepted by administrators. If so, that's another inefficiency in our system. Administrators shouldn't be making more than doctors or nurses. The latter have the expensive, specialized, education. The administrators are not part of the care equation at all. I suspect a lot of their function shouldn't even be necessary.

Which could lead to a tangent about the expense of a medical education. On a recent trip we hung out with some Canadians. Either the daughter or granddaughter (forget which) was paying something like $300 per semester for med school. She will not come out with massive student loan debt. So she won't have to earn as much to enable her to pay that debt. Yet another way to bring our costs down.
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