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

To: Lane3 who wrote (2861)	11/13/2007 1:51:39 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The thread I was addressing was the effect of collectivism on individual liberty. Whether the collectivism manifests in the private sector, in this case in employee risk pools, or the public sector with national risk pools, the tendency to try to constrain costly behavior or personal characteristics among fellow pool members is the same. Not exactly. Presumably people with pre-existing conditions would qualify for single payer. They get turned down in the private sector. Fat people, smokers etc would be more likely to be included in a public system than a private system. Try another angle...