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To: koan who wrote (9756)	2/18/2012 10:13:38 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 85487

We need single payer universal health care No we don't. We not only don't need it, we wouldn't even benefit from it. Health care does not need to be private with a 40% overhead. Medicare is 4%. 1 - I assume you mean health insurance not health care. 2- You figure for private insurance is a huge overestimate. 3 - Your figure for Medicare ignores many government costs of Medicare that are not directly part of the Medicare program. Society has the right to struncture itself that way People have rights, government has powers, society is a nebulous concept at least in this context. and it is best for the people. No it isn't. Like an 80 year old women would be able to get affordable healthcare. Someone else paying for something doesn't make it more affordable, it just means the tab is being picked up by someone else, its still just as effective (unless the tab being picked up by the government means there is going to be rationing of care). When someone is hurt, a decent society will be there for them. Our society is, at least about as much as other societies are.

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