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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (13794)8/19/2004 3:18:05 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (3) of 90947
 
Neither, however, denied the essential fact that some people pay and some don't. Apparently, it simply isn't acceptable to label those who don't pay as deadbeats.

We need a system where everyone participates. Who are the deadbeats? They're the ones that can't afford medical insurance, what is it now...40 million people without? If everyone pitched in according to their income, then there would be ample resources to cover medical needs.

Some say...you can't trust the government to oversee such an insurance program, but every other industrialized nation is doing that. If the system is well designed, spreading the burden over many people, we should all be able to get reasonable care at reasonable prices.

The so called deadbeats cost all of us anyway, as we end up paying for them one way or another. Seems that if folks had regular doctor visits, then some of the costly needs of "deadbeats" could be intervened in at a lower cost, before conditions required expensive medical treatments. Preventative medicine should be a large part of the design.

Some sort of public private combination would seem best to me. Spread the burden and costs more evenly...and reduce the cost.

Orca
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