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

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (2100)	9/21/2007 4:42:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Allowing expensive options doesn't necessarily make the poor suffer at all. Requiring insurance cover all those options will hurt the working poor because the insurance becomes too expensive for them. But if the rich can get "gold plated" insurance, while the less than rich get silver, bronze, or maybe tin plated insurance (and the very poor get Medicaid) the less than rich shouldn't be hurt by the options being available to the rich. In fact they can be helped. New procedures often start out at very high prices. As techniques improve, and as competition for the procedure increases the prices can come down. (Doesn't necessarily mean its cheap but its no longer something only "gold plated" insurance would pay for, or that no insurance would pay for and only the very rich paying out of their own pocket would be able to get). There is not need for me to rehash the details of her propsal. Go to her website and read all about it. I wasn't asking for her proposal to be rehashed but rather what specific points about it that you like. Apparently your answer is that you think Hillary has the right understanding so you trust her to make a good proposal, but that's an answer to "Why do you like Hillary?", I'm looking more for "What features of the proposal strike you as very good, and why do you think they are good?". Going to her web site isn't going to tell me what you like, or expose me to your arguments.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (2100)	9/21/2007 5:11:06 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

When you design a healthcare system that favors the rich (load it with super expensive options) the health care of the poor will deteriorate. ... You have to make the proper tradeoffs so that you can maximize the benefits for opposing or contending interests. The market has done this with a relative degree of efficiency. To believe that government could allocate resources more efficiently than private enterprises would be to ignore the lessons of failed socialist systems. The reason I favor free markets is that I don't like government bureaucrats determining life span by cutting off further medical care. Do you want a government employee telling you that you will be dead soon because they will not authorize medical benefits for a person with your medical conditions? For some reason this seems particularly appropriate: "LIVE FREE OR DIE."