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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1106)	4/12/2006 8:49:38 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You made an assumption back there of YOUNG workers. Not the general population. YOUNG workers. We all are well aware that the young have much better health than the general population and much lower health costs. You can get away with premiums for health insurance IF you can keep your workforce young. BUT we all know that, in theory at least, this is illegal. It's called "age discrimination". If you do it often enough you will get caught. And if you are a gov't designong a health care plan, you can make no such assumptions. You must be prepared to cover the GENERAL population. And that includes 85 year old Granpa who has heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and osteoorosis. NOW how do you cover him at $40 a month? Well, you take the money the younger workers are putting in but not using. Unless, of course, your young working population decreases and you're older non-working population increases. Does this begin to sound familiar? Like the SS mess maybe? This is how THEY got there. By the way, does SS fit into your Libertaria?