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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (2240)	10/18/2007 4:47:11 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

re: Yeah. THAT'S a large part of why more efficent railroads can't compete against trucks in transport: trucking companies pay only a small part of the cost of the roadbed they run on, whereas railroads have to pay 100%. Well you seldom see passenger cars running on railroad tracks, so you have a more limited usage don't you. And you seldom see railroad trains delivering goods to main street businesses. Seems to me they are complimentary. re: You can build a rasilroad on your own land too. But in most cases it makes no economic sense. You are starting to catch on... re: Prove to me that public education is better than private. Then prove increasing education funding improves results. I dare you. The superiority of Private/Public isn't the point. Public is efficient and fair as I said. re: If you put your kids in private schools now, you STILL are forced to pay the cost of having them in the public system So. I don't have kids and have been paying property insurance most of my life. You may never have a house fire but you pay for the Fire Department. It's called society... invented by the caveman. Working together for our mutual benefit... even some wild pack animals understand the concept. re: Than a gov't bureaucracy? Are you SERIOUS???? 100%. And they don't pay their adjusters commissions based on denied claims. re: THAT depends entirely on the system finally adopted. If the Canadian system is used as the model, forget that. Unlikely. The most likely model is Medicare for everyone. re: In fact it would probably be very cheap. --------------------------- Why? Particularly when you consider that you will probably be forced to pay for public health insurance for yourself anyway. A single payment system, rather than 2000 payment systems saves a lot of money on both the payment and collection ends. You take out the high profits and salaries of the health insurance companies.