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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: i-node who wrote (13160)	1/22/2010 3:35:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 42652

It seems to me you begin with the premise of cutting costs, then after you attain some measure of success you can consider the possibility of increasing the scope of coverage. I'm looking at it the other way. The whole point of the exercise was those alleged 46 million uninsured. Seems to me that the first step would be to see to at least a critical mass of them. There are two different cost cutting tracks. One is is the issue of unaffordability that leaves many without insurance. Make it cheap enough and some of the uninsured will buy it. But those uninsured are higher hanging fruit and the problem is part of the uninsured problem. The other cost issue is the sustainability of the federal programs. That isn't a new problem, only one we've continued to ignore. So I see that as a separate matter from reform. I think it was a mistake for the effort so far to mix the two. Since we're looking at breaking the problem up into smaller pieces, I sure wouldn't want to see them continue to be mixed. At any rate I thought we were goners and now there is another chance and I'm very pleased about that. Amen.

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