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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: thames_sider who wrote (89839)10/13/2008 1:12:21 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542009
 
The problem with this model is still the same as Medicare, if I read it right. Treatment of people who are increasingly old in increasingly costly: plus with more old consumers and fewer young payers it's correspondingly harder to fund.

I disagree. That's the point of Medicare. And, in fact the point of any insurance scheme, everyone pools resources to cover everyone such that when you hit the vulnerable category, in this case the later stages of life, you are covered. Since everyone eventually goes there, hopefully, you can argue the young are only covering themselves. They should push for Medicare for everyone with high floors.

I thought the large difference between Medicare for everyone and the British system is that in yours the medical system is a government system. That would not be the case here.
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