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To: TimF who wrote (14202)	4/1/2012 12:38:22 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 85487

<<Not having health insurance != die I've been insured for most of my life, but I've been without since September or October. As far as I can tell I'm still alive.>> And what happens if you get sick or injured so that it requires you to spend months in the hospital? <<The thesis is setting up a system where no one dies for lack of health insurance. People don't die from lack of health insurance. They do sometimes die when health care could have prevented it, but health care and health insurance are two different things. The end goal is access to health care not to insurance. Health insurance is only one way to achieve that goal, and if you screw up the insurance for the majority, in order to cover a minority (and not everyone, at least not under Obamacare) you have probably made things worse.>> Of course they do. I have many friends without health insurance and serious medical problems who do not see a doctor. A civilized society cannot allow people to die in poverty becaseu they do not plan correctly for retirement therefore an automatic system like social security does it for them. Same with health care. You need health insurance. And even you do not seem to realize it.

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