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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1129)	4/16/2006 7:34:44 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"My impression is that the majority of docs wil not accept patients who have only Medicare coverage. More and more don't take ANY insurance. You pay them, them bill you insurance separately and see what you can get." Then we are on the road to either more government action or towards dealing with the problem. When people have an interest in cost containment, they are more prudent consumers. Third party payer health insurance created the free rider problem. If the good is free regardless of the quantity consumed, then demand is infinite. People say, "Same my life no matter what the cost." If they have to pay a significant amount, they use cost / benefit analyzing techniques. The system cannot work anything like the libs want with its current limitations." Be careful what you allow government to deal with.