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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1111)	4/13/2006 1:15:16 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The concept Miniter suggested is that a major medical might get as low as $40 per month if the worst meddling is stripped away. I extended that to the specific results of offering insurance at the same price. It would be unwise to compare the two situations and declare them the same. However one can draw from them similarities. Aged people who are not eligible for subsidized healthcare might sign up for cheap major medical insurance just as seemingly invincible young men will sign up for cheap full featured insurance. The politician that can sell that divide is going to make Adolph Hitler look look like an unconvincing bungler. Once you get into this, people aren't going to CARE what age they are when they have health problems; you, the state, will be expected to attempt to fix them. If it doesn't start there, it will be expanded there over time. The original SS did not not have Medicare or SSI in it either. It does now. This is a case where the slippery slope fully applies. And you CANNOT extend a reasonable cost for healthy young men across the general population.