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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (8450)10/9/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Hillary copied the German plan, not the Candian plan. If it was such a great plan, there wouldn't have been so many groups exempted from the plan. Government employees would not have paid into the system --- as in Social Security. Unions would not have paid into the system. The tax she proposed was 8-9% for the plan. This would likely have gone up considerably as it did in Social Security. There were also proposals that retirees from some Rust Belt union plans would be placed into the plan. The unions would no longer have to pay into the coverage for their retirees. I don't want to be asked to sacrifice for a national plan in which so many are opting out at the start. We've already had that fiasco with Social Security.

The basic reason that many people are becoming uninsured is that the government is shifting costs to other payors. They codified payment limits in the Medicare/Medicaid regulations that require service providers to charge other patients much more. The government passed community rating laws in states that caused younger people to drop their coverage since their premiums were being artificially adjusted up to bring premiums for the elderly down. We just saw a latest fiasco when the HMO's started dropping Medicare since Medicare set unreasonably low copayments.
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