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

To: Road Walker who wrote (2694)	11/3/2007 2:51:04 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

...in Florida, where Giuliani still leads in the polls among Republicans, the State Health Insurance Advisory Board reported Monday that one in every four people had no health insurance last year. If I lived in Florida, especially if I ran a newspaper, I'd investigate why the rate of uninsured is higher there than in the nation as a whole. The distortions about European medicine may make for entertaining campaign rhetoric, but they offer nothing to the 47-million Americans who have no insurance and are typically turned away from doctors' offices. Talk about rhetoric...as has been discussed here, even Hillary Clinton doesn't claim 47 million "Americans" don't have health insurance. According to the Census Bureau, the 47 million includes resident non-citizens and counts anyone without insurance at some time during the year, many of whom are already qualified for a government program but haven't applied. Giuliani is so busy campaigning against "universal" or "government" health care he has yet to acknowledge that two Republican governors have introduced the concepts in their own states and that the federal Medicare program is both government-run and universal for elderly citizens. But apparently Medicare doesn't pay for the full cost of treatment which much be borne by other patients and also adds costs unrelated to treatment. If Medicare were made universal, there'd be no one left to stick those costs with. And the jury is still out regarding the success of the Massachusetts and proposed California state plans. These editorials you're quoting are more ignorant than any posts here and add nothing to the discussion.