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

To: John Koligman who wrote (2370)	10/26/2007 5:29:51 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

If there were widespread food shortages in the US, you can bet the govt would get involved - QUICKLY. In terms of emergency relief? Probably. In terms of nationalizing other the creation of food, or all purchases of food, hopefully not. If it did it would do much more harm than good. I suspect you might have one of those gold plated corporate plans, but that's okay. Since you care so much about what type of plan I have, even though its really irrelevant, fine I'll address the issue. I have a plan through my employer but it isn't "gold plated". I get a certain amount of coverage for care (and if I don't spend it it rolls over to the next year), anything past that I'm out of pocket, up to a limit. Beyond that limit I get fairly normal (but not gold plated) insurance. Sort of like a HSA combined with catastrophic insurance (with the HSA amount not being enough to cover all costs up to the limit where the catastrophic insurance kicks in), except that the employer covers part of the HSA (and also the money isn't actually in a HSA)