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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (1043)	2/27/2006 12:59:23 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

"Health insurance companies have not solved the problems yet, nor are they ever likely to do so. People are much more adaptable than corporations." Who are the people you speak of and how are they supposed to adapt? The people are you and I. We have an interest in both economic savings from effective treatment and in ensuring that medical providers are rewarded so they continue to serve us. HSAs are the only option on the table (of which I am aware) that provides tax savings and restores a first party payer system. "If we decide that we want to cover the risk premiums for our fellow man in order to ensure that our excess risk is also covered, then we should begin soon to pass legislation." Legislation is unlikely. The insurance companies have a strong lobby. If they are allowed to participate, they might support it. a piece of a different market is better than 100% of nothing. "In some ways is uniform rate insurance like union labor? The strong carry the weight for the weak." Yes, spread the risk should be the name of the game. HSAs do this while rewarding the healthy.