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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1118)	4/14/2006 1:18:21 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Gov't can't do it either. If it attempts to expend the same resources needed by healthy young men across the general population, the older and less healthy portion will not get the care they want and need. And that won't work. One of the reasons SS cannot be changed now is that older people VOTE in larger percentages than younger people. They will vote out politicians who oppose their views. You end up in a situation where that younger working population is putting considerably more $ into the medical system than it uses. The excess of their contribution pays for health care of the less healthy older population- -many of whom are no longer working and contribution nothing to support the expense of the system. Is that fair? Some say yes and some say no. Your answer places in this debate. Liberals think in a fair society it is entirely appropriate to take wealth form the young and spend it for the elderly. Conservatives consider it a form of legalized robbery.