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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: brushwud who wrote (2446)	10/28/2007 2:55:51 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 42652

re: 68% of the population is covered by private health insurance and no one's holding a gun to their heads, so I'd infer that those insurance providers are doing at least an adequate job. What % of those people get their health insurance as a "free" perk of their job? My WAG, 80% to 90%. Considering that ~25% of people are uninsured, where does that leave the individual, free market decision percentage? Again my guess is that less than 10% of all health insurance is actually bought by individuals making price/benefit decisions. This is anything but a free market. It's a convoluted mess with 50 state regulators and one federal regulator and is essentially an entitlement for those who are fortunate enough to get a decent job. To the "libertarians" on this thread, your love of this system is ludicrous. It's everything you hate.

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