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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (3850)	1/12/2008 7:48:36 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) of 42652

You make a good point about maintaining an accurate database of births. My working assumption has been that folks would VOLUNTARILY enroll their children because they would want them insured with regard to catastrophic illnesses. Forced enrollment wasn't in my mental picture. I can see now that my choice of the word mandate is problematic. I guess it suggests govt. looking over our shoulder and/or tracking people down???? My idea is simply premised on the fact that catastrophic coverage is relatively cheap and is cheaper still if everyone is in the actuarial pool. And its cheaper still if government is the insurer. I'm envisioning a watered-down version of European style single-payer systems but definitely wouldn't want some kind of punitive, forced-entry, big brother type program to emerge. Yikes!!!! Talk about blowback, LOL.

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