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

To: Lane3 who wrote (3311)	12/17/2007 12:52:20 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"Employers providing those benefits, which I'm sure seemed like a good idea at the time, are a huge part of the problem. Sure, people may want health insurance, but that's not the same as wanting employer-packaged, tax-advantaged health insurance, not if they're thoughtful and capable of differentiating." My current understanding of how we got into this pickle is that during WW II with wages frozen employers looked for a way to provide better pay. Cheap health insurance benefits provided that tool. Eventually as demand for the benefit the market influence increased. Now it threatens to usher in socialized medicine which will ensure that people without influence inside the system receive a quality of care similar to what is currently available for free or reduced prices.