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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: TimF who wrote (2451)	10/29/2007 7:04:29 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 42652

re: Having health insurance normally come from an employer might be less than ideal, but it isn't unfair or somehow moved out of the realm of the free market. Oh certainly its not a perfectly free market thing, it gets better tax treatment than most other forms of compensation. I don't think it should but its hardly the only way the tax code intervenes in the economy, and to the extent such intervention is a problem the answer is to get rid of the special tax benefit. The main problem is health insurance is seen as a benefit instead of a product. You may see that you are paying for it but I guarantee most people don't, so it is not held up to the same standards of cost/benefits as would say car insurance or anything else where you write a check. Even you, the ultimate free market guru would not give up the "entitlement" you hold close to your heart... so you can see a free market is impossible to get to in health care insurance.

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