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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (6484)3/25/2009 11:20:14 AM
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>> Um, employer provided health insurance. Heard of it?

They don't "provide" it. They just write a check to pay for it, for gods sake. I don't know how you get to the idea of them "being in the middle" of it. They don't process the claims. They don't make health care decisions for their employees.

>> I think you are about the only one here who supports the status quo with regard to current costs.

I don't support the status quo with regard to costs. I just different with people about how you improve the situation. But I can state a couple of things with absolute certainty:

a) Getting government involved in the payment process does NOT improve the situation, and

b) You do not cut costs by committing to pay for health care for millions of additional people who are unable or unwilling to pay their own ways.

Those two things, anyone with common sense can tell you.

Or with the boomers hitting their 60's-70's-80's the total cost will suck the economy dry.

But you calmly ignore the fact that we have a $50 Trillion debt from Social Security and Medicare that already has sucked the economy dry, and it doesn't bother you that this nitwit president is proposing trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.

You need to clear up your own inconsistency in thought before you start proposing ideas for others to live by.
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