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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (8839)8/29/2009 6:32:47 PM
From: Brumar891 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Insisting the terms of policies be met isn't what I consider rationing at all. Are you saying insurers violate their policies to hold down costs? If they do, they are vulnerable to suits and bad publicity.

The question was: what makes you think that "we have good evidence governments impose rationing to a far greater extent than any insurer would or could" ? I know of no data on that nor would I think that would be the case.

The experience of countries like Britain or Canada are evidence.

I would expect that rationing would be more or less the same if the potential clientele were the same, as in middle class Americans because the cultural expectations would be the same.

So you think American health care can't be eroded because the people just won't put up with it? I know there are long waits for MRI's in Canada as an example. Do you think the cultural differences between the US and Canada will insure we can't develop the same waiting periods here?
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