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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (9538)2/17/2012 1:14:17 AM
From: Little Joe  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
"I think where we could make a real savings on universal health care is to get the insurance companies out of the business. If we are going to have universal health care why do we now need them? An extra layer of bureaucracy that has to extract a profit from the system."

Well if we have universal health care, you are correct we do not need insurance companies, and lets agree for the sake of argument that there will be a savings, but against that savings will be the huge cost of the agencies created in this bill. As I have repeatedly mentioned there are over 100 agencies with vaguely defined guidelines, created. While I am not a great believer in government ingenuity, nobody tops the government when it comes to spending a lot of money and getting little for it.

Now if you believe this universal health system will be efficiently run by our government given its track record. I suppose you have the better argument. I on the other hand am a realist and ask myself, given the track record, what is the chance of this occurring.

You and I can argue about this forever. What I would like to see is universal coverage, a free market and other ideas that we are hearing from the republicans offered as options in several states so we could get some real in the field practical results. Then we might have a better idea of what works and end this debate based on facts instead of opinions. As big as America is, I see no reason why it cannot be tried. Surely it would be a better idea that forcing the country into a huge boondoggle.

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