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

To: Road Walker who wrote (2362)	10/26/2007 3:20:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

There are probably more car companies now than there were in the early day... worldwide. In the early days there where hundreds of car companies. (If you count those that never actually succeeded in building and selling cars they may have been thousands). All sorts of people who happened to have a bit of capital gave it a go. If you had only one payment system it would certainly be more efficient than many payment systems. Don't you agree? Not necessarily, for one thing your removing competition. Even if it is, its unlikely to be massively more efficient, at best you gain a bit at the margin. The downside risk is much more than the possible upside.

To: Road Walker who wrote (2362)	10/27/2007 10:28:11 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If you had only one payment system it would certainly be more efficient than many payment systems. Don't you agree? You can have one payment system without having government-provided, universal health care. Having one payment system is like having one size light bulb base. My grandmother told me of having to take the lamp to the store to get a light bulb that fits. Well, they fixed that by standardizing and they can do a lot to reduce costs in our current system by standardization. You don't have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.