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To: TimF who wrote (357816)	11/11/2007 11:23:46 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1577591

If universal care means people who don't get much care now get more care and nothing else changes, than life expectancies probably would go up (even if not by all that much). But universal care means putting in place some government universal care system. You don't get "nothing else changes". Do you think it is possible that with universal care the quality of average, pedestrian care could go up? After all, there are three possibilities... it stays pretty much the same, gets worse or gets better. It's quite possible that with larger volume, and a more efficient payment system, that the quality of care would increase. Quality/volume/efficiency often go hand in hand in this country. You're assumption that higher volume means lower quality is just an assumption.