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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (705865)3/26/2013 2:29:02 PM
From: Tenchusatsu2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1573484
 
Al,
Too bad you are dwelling on my mis-speak rather than the fact that the swiss universal health care plan run by private insurance costs 50% per capita than the ones next door in france and italy which are largely single payer...which was the net of the point I was trying to make.
You didn't misspeak. You changed your argument from "look at Switzerland as an example of single payer" to "look at Switzerland as an example of private insurance being more expensive."

Switzerland has the highest per capita costs for health care because Switzerland is a very wealthy nation. Their per-capita GDP is a lot higher than that of France or Italy. That combined with private insurance allows the Swiss to pay for more than just the bare minimums for coverage.

Meanwhile you dismissed my description of single-payer as a government price-control scheme. You said I made "too many assumptions of the worst variety," when all I did was call out exactly what single-payer is all about. If you don't like my depiction of single-payer health care, fine, but your pollyannish portrayal thereof is no better.

Like I said, no country has an ideal system of health care. Not even France, which is cited as the "highest quality" in the world by artificial metrics that define equal access as "quality."

Tenchusatsu
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