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To: DMaA who wrote (194427)1/27/2007 7:55:45 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 794009
 
I can't wait till Rudy gives us his plans for health care.

I can't wait till we have a candidate who will plan NOT to mess with health care. A single payer system will give the Congress too much money/power. Everything else would end up being "incremental" - or, more likely, DEtremental.

In the end, we'll have to abandon the "egalitarian" concept of health care - namely, that everyone is entitled to the same level of care, and that money is no object when it comes to a person's health. The HMO's are already doing a fine job at demolishing the latter notion.

We need a basic health care safety net. In addition, individuals would be able to purchase "augmented" health insurance - at different levels and price ranges.

Everyone should receive medical attention if needed. Under the safety net, that care would be basic - and not necessarily convenient. The recipient may have to travel to a public clinic for a medical visit. If needed, recipients would be hospitalized - but in a ward, rather than in a semi-private room. And they would be cared for by the house staff - rather than by the Director of Medicine, as it were.

Test and procedure availability would have to differ - and would be prioritized depending on the level of insurance. Why not? The people of Canada - or Britain - can wait for weeks or months) to get an MRI.... but our Medicaid makes one entitled to instant answers.

Of course, such a safety net system could end up being used as a back door to universal care. The designers would have to be careful about that.

Just a few thoughts.
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