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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (2030)	9/6/2007 3:31:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

I'm not really opposing a free market solution. I don't oppose either employer provided insurance or a great reduction in employer provided insurance. What I oppose is the tax system favoring employee provided insurance over other forms of compensation. You remove that tilting of the playing field and employee provided health insurance will be much less of an issue, both because it won't be as common and because to get it people will have to forgo a larger amount of other forms of compensation, so they will feel/notice the cost more. Even if you remove all of the tax benefit and any other way the government favors this method of insurance, it would take time for any serious shift, as you point out people are used to it, but they used to be used to getting most of their compensation in cash (counting checks as cash, or if you go back long enough even if you don't count checks as cash), and that expectation changed over time. I'm not looking for any quick fix. I don't think there is one, and IMO pushing to hard to get one will probably be counterproductive.

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