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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (5525)4/29/2008 3:19:26 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
You beat me too posting that by a few minutes.

From the comments section to that blog post

The part of McCain’s plan that I like the most is allowing individuals to purchase health insurance across State lines similar to the proposal by Congressman John Shadegg. Right now mandated benefits make up between 10 and 20 percent of the cost of an insurance premium depending on the State you live in. Consumers should be able to purchase a health insurance plan that covers the benefits that they want (actually health insurance ideally would just be for major medical expenses rather than act as prepaid health care) rather that what provider lobbyists have convinced the State legislatures that insurance should cover. You can either have insurance that is affordable and protects people when they have an emergency but makes them responsible for their regular expenses or you have a gold-plated policy that covers anything and everything but is increasingly unaffordable and leaves people without protection in the case of an emergency. We’ve been moving increasingly in the latter direction and I’m glad to see McCain starting to make the case (albeit in a more roundabout way) for returning health insurance to actually acting as insurance.

Posted by Thorley Winston | April 29, 2008 2:02 PM
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