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To: neolib who wrote (214752)	1/25/2007 3:54:50 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Second, the state loses the opportunity to import federal dollars into the economy. I wish he would have stated that differently. That's my money [taxes] he's referring to as a lost opportunity. But I understand his perspective. And it likely cascades from there. If the state become the payor, they aren't likely to take it out of pocket, that's going to flow down the liability to their tax base. Lower federal taxes raise state taxes, and make the patients and doctors who are in the middle of the game unhappy. I think there's a fundamental decision that the US public has to make. Is health care so important that we want everyone to have "reasonable" access to health care? I'm not certain of the precise definition of "reasonable", I know it doesn't include getting bigger boobs or a romanesque nose. I think it should include pre-natal care, immunizations, and physicals. We don't have nor will we ever have a purely private health care system or a purely single payer health care system. England as one example doesn't. They have an NHS and a private health care system. The private health care system tries to cover the deficiencies of the NHS. All of the other industrialized countries have decided that there should be some health coverage for everyone and the only system they can come up with to do that is a single payer system. We haven't made that decision yet. Hence, there are 47 million people without health care insurance which is pretty effective in isolating those people from the health care system. jttmab