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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (241811)3/22/2010 9:48:33 PM
From: Elroy JetsonRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
That's exactly the way I see health care reform. Once you implement the best plan you can get passed, and everyone must be covered or pay a fine, . . .

. . . then over the next eight to ten years, the overwhelming majority of the public will demand, insist upon, changes to health care offerings which were never able to survive in Congress under the pressure of industry lobbyists and shrill ideological extremists like Dick Armey. And no politician will dare to stand in the way of this groundswell of demand for change.

Frankly, I expect we'll end up with a system like that in Australia, where all legal residents are covered by Medicare, with the opportunity for the public to purchase supplemental private insurance which provide care in more posh surroundings and additional services.

In the coming years I assume the overwhelming majority of the public will become very dissatisfied with mandatory free-market insurance firms as their only choice.

There'll be intense and widespread demand for the creation of either non-profit competitors, or a basic no-frills single-payer system which everyone must participate in as a minimum, probably paid for with a tax. This will be in addition to their private medical policy if they have one, or as their only policy if they choose not to purchase medical insurance.
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