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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: i-node who wrote (6509)	3/25/2009 9:17:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Nobody in my family -- my dad or any of my siblings, has ever been other than self-employed (well, I worked for someone else for a couple years). Yet, we all have more health coverage than we need. I have "high deductible" insurance, as does my wife, but it certainly is far more coverage than we would have had 40 years ago. Note 1 - You have high deductible insurance, not an attempt to have a comprehensive pre-paid medical plan. 2 - You all bought these insurance policies in the context of a society that has moved to employer provided "insurance" plans that often are more of a prepaid health plan. The main lump of demand shapes the market more than you do, and you operate in the market that is so shaped. Which doesn't mean I don't think you have a point at all. I do think your right that its likely that medical coverage would have expanded even without this level of employer involvement, but the employer involvement (and the tax breaks which helped cause the employer involvement to exist and than to become more "generous") is a major force behind the change even if it isn't the only one.

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