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To: geode00 who wrote (215921)	2/1/2007 11:14:24 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The pay would still be coming from wage witholdings, the same payment schedules would still be in force with health care providers, all seniors would still be getting it for free with identical coverage, the only difference would be that the government would sent insurance vouchers to seniors who could then choose to sign up with the insurance company of their choice for identical plans. This is what I have been saying all along: Mandatory coverage, reasonable policies (in this case relatively poor actually but all identical), competitive insurance companies, and wealth transfer from taxes. The only competitive angle that can be worked here is efficency, and I suspect that market forces will make a multi-party system better than a monopoly.