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

To: Road Walker who wrote (2381)	10/27/2007 10:49:50 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Why not give it a try It's not something you can "try." "Try" implies temporary, an avenue of retreat if it doesn't work out. There would be no avenue of retreat because "free" health care would become perceived as a right, impossible to overturn. If we go with your plan, we'd better make damn sure we will never want to change back.

To: Road Walker who wrote (2381)	10/27/2007 1:28:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Profit. It's $Billions in the health insurance industry. Take all the profit from insurance companies and you still don't have enough for the type of savings that your talking about. And that's assuming profit as useless, but it actually performs a useful economic function, encouraging (or as it decline discouraging) investment in a particular area rather than having investment determined by a political process which can't really know how many resources a particular area needs. As for compensation - Very few people are CEOs or other high corporate officers. For the run of the mill workers total compensation is often lower in the private sector. Hiring a bunch of private clerks to process forms isn't going to be noticeably more expensive than hiring a bunch of government clerks. Considering the fact that the government clerks are more likely to be unionized and less likely to be laid off if their are too many of them its likely the private sector compensation is less. These are the things that are supposed to cut costs in half? Pathetic. Why not give it a try since universal works better in 100% of the other similar countries?* Because 1 - It doesn't work better in similar countries, and 2 - Its not something that can just be tried and then removed easily.