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To: Road Walker who wrote (196116)	7/28/2004 12:18:06 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576426

How does that influence insurance companies and providers? I suspect everything gets more efficient and less expensive. If you bring the producer and the consumer closer together things always work better. "Always" is a long time. I don't think you're necessarily correct. But certainly, this can't conceivably be an argument for government sponsored healthcare. The employee is a hell of a lot closer to his employer-provided health plan than he would be to a government provided one. Again, I cite the recent changes made by United Health. It is about free enterprise. In a free enterprise system employers are allowed to compete for employees by offering them better benefits. We can't go mucking up something that works for nearly 90% of Americans; any changes have to be incremental and relatively minor or we take that risk. Just as there is no un-ringing the bell on this nightmare called Social Security, I agree there is none on eliminating employer-sponsored healthcare. But it is less clear that to do so with healthcare would be beneficial to the masses.