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To: KLP who wrote (405996)1/22/2011 5:27:25 PM
From: Katelew1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 794309
 
I think we're talking past each other. What I mean is that his plan leaves the insurers in place. They are still private companies and owned by shareholders. They operate in the market economy. A communist approach would be to take them over and run them as state entities.

I agree with you on the high cost of all things medical, but I don't know what can be done about it. You don't want the govt. to set prices do you? That would be a rather communist approach, seem to me.

My beef with the ACA is mainly that the whole convoluted thing hangs together on government subsidies. It's an open ended entitlement program in the making. I don't see any reason, though, to think it will fundamentally change our world-class medical system or alter medical research or any of the other claims I hear made.
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