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To: E. T. who wrote (20431)	6/10/2007 10:14:23 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The problem you ignore is that healthcare has to be rationed. It is a good with unlimited demand. We can ration it by setting an upside on the cost (ala Medicare) and doctors will refuse to see patients. We can ration it by setting an upper budget allocation just before unlimited free medical care bankrupts the nation. We can ration it at the local level by allowing doctors with compassion to provide free or reduced price care. Prior to the expansion of the medical payment bureaucracy the latter was the mechanism most often in play. Which of those choices would you prefer? Another alternative would be to have different levels of medical care available for different prices (ala the Soviet system that favored the socialist fat cats).