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

To: Road Walker who wrote (2873)	11/13/2007 3:19:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

What are you talking about? I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to be abstruse. I was just trying to analyze one factor at a time. That's the only way to effectively analyze something as complex as a health care system. You identify all the threads and the pros and cons for each. If we go to the kind of national system you favor, collectivism would be even greater than it is now with employer-provided insurance. Further, the government has the power to pass laws so its capacity to constrain behavior is greater than that of the employer. That's a net increase in what I consider a negative. Whether we go with a nationalized system or simply reform the system we have, I would like to see that factor minimized. We could reduce it in the current system by moving away from employer-provided systems with their contrived risk pools. In a nationalized system, I don't see any way to avoid worsening the negative effect. (The pro side of the collectivism factor is its universality.)