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

To: Lane3 who wrote (3874)	1/14/2008 2:34:24 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

It should help all I would think. I posted some articles a few months ago that talked about something like 20% of people with insurance still go bankrupt due to serious illness. If we could fix these two problems it would go a long way. John PS - I'm curious, are all you guys at work, traders, or retired? <ggg> I can glance away from my bank of screens pretty often because I'm on the net all day long trading. I've often wondered about the rest of you <ggg>

To: Lane3 who wrote (3874)	1/16/2008 9:59:10 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"I wouldn't mind, I don't think, the government being the insurer of last resort for that constituency." In most states there is already a high risk pool for people who cannot obtain insurance through other means. The premiums reflect the fact that all people in the pool have very expensive medical conditions. I don't know the details, but I suspect that most states that have them subsidize them already. Duplicative government efforts are not only silly, they are inefficient and expensive.