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To: TimF who wrote (130059)	2/4/2010 1:07:41 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) of 541957

Subsidized (in other words containing a handout) catastrophic insurance. Tim, I'm in and out of house today and pressed for time. But I'm curious to know if your mental image of some kind of national catastrophic insurance plan would be one administered by the governement (maybe as a branch of Medicare) or would be a private insurance plan. Second, no matter which entity provides and administer the plan, would it be available to everyone or just something folks could obtain after they came down with a "catastrophic" illness? If its available only after the illness, what would be the source of funds for paying the medical costs as they occur? If it's available to everyone...young, old, healthy, or sick....wouldn't this work to hollow out the private insurance industry over time as more and more people opted for only catastrophic coverage?

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