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

To: Katelew who wrote (3849)	1/12/2008 6:58:39 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

it seems to me that a typical insurance card is all that would be necessary. I don't see how, not if it's a mandate. If you have a mandate, you have to populate a database of your universe, which would be all births, and then at a minimum put a tick for each one who signed up with Aetna or whomever. And you'd have to verify periodically that they're keeping up the policies. There are a variety of ways of doing that but for each you'd need your birth data base as a baseline and a unique identification number. Just a thought. All these changes have repercussions that have to be worked through, no matter how simple they sound. A side benefit is that it might be harder to steal kids and hide them. As for other systems, you can still get lost in this country although it's getting harder.