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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (4841)	11/4/2000 8:57:12 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Listen, I'm ALL FOR MANDATORY PRE-NATAL CARE. Even if insurance companies are instructed to offer a lost cost insurance program specifically for such purposes and subsidized by the government through tax credits. I strongly believe in an ounce of prevention preventing a pound of cure. But I also believe that preventive care will NOT be any better under a universal health care system. The key to health care, imo, is that there has to be an incentive for the public NOT to abuse the system by over-burdening a system that is fully federally funded. There has to be a stake in maintaining one's health and the only real way I've seen to encourage this is to mandate a deductible as we currently see with most plans. If people don't have to pay anything to receive care, they will treat the system like free food. Thus, the system will be so burdened with the hypochondriacs that the truly sick will suffer. And the democrats who claim that so many people have no health care fail to realize that NO HOSPITAL can turn away an injured or sick individual. It's against the law to do so. And personally, I favor a program where ALL GRADUATING MEDICAL STUDENTS are assigned to community clinics on a voluntary basis, as part of their residency. But of course, I also believe that every able bodied man and woman, with no exceptions, upon graduation from HS should due two years of service, either in the military, or equivalent organization set up to build infrastructure, deferrable until after graduation from college. Regards, Ron