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

To: TimF who wrote (2402)	10/27/2007 2:45:58 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<< many of them have the money to buy insurance and choose not to. >>> Just in this one category, I can see family households with $50,000 a year in income, living from paycheck to paycheck, without emloyer paid health insurance, have a hard time coming up with $4 or $5 thousand dollars a year or more for insurance and not go to see doctors until something really bad happens. I think the number is large but regardless, why not fix the problem. It's not like we can't afford it. Alan Greenspan, not exactly an ultra Liberal, has said that entitlement programs are not a problem. It is only a problem coming up because of changes in demographics where on a cash accounting basis we have a shortfall, but on an accrual basis, this is not a problem. Cash Accounting is no longer relevant. Accounting is normally done on an accrual basis. We can fix these problems.