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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (505163)8/16/2009 1:46:23 AM
From: SilentZ1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 1579131
 
>Who pays for the public plan? Obama is going to tax private health insurance, the uninsured who chooses to be that way, and anyone else he thinks can "afford" higher taxes.

Everybody will pay for it, for now. But in the long run, we'll all save because of lower costs in the general insurance market. How many other industries can keep jacking up prices by 20% per year?

>The prevention is going to cost more than what is being "prevented." It's been pointed out many times.

Not sure about that. It's been said, but I'm not convinced. Maybe, maybe, if you figure that the people who are uninsured don't get any care at all. But many of them do. And when they do, it's very expensive. And when they don't, there's a social cost to that. It ain't all about dollars.

>The issue here is quality of health care, not cost savings. Preventative care is and should be a part of any health insurance plan. But it's foolish to associate that with cutting costs. The only way you can cut costs is by rationing, which is what every industrialized country with universal health care has to do.

WE do! You don't think so? We ration plenty! Recission, co-pays, restrictions on how much drug coverage/number of visits you can get paid for... there's so much rationing going on.
There will be less rationing going on if there's no profit motive for doing so.

-Z
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