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

To: gg cox who wrote (4148)	2/1/2008 12:37:43 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"The Others" are not represented here and are too busy scratching out a living and wondering where the 12 thousand bucks is coming from to pay health insurance premiums for a family of four. Anyone "scratching out a living," unless it's an intermittent and unexpected condition, should be a family of one until such time as he can afford a family of four. As for the unfortunate kids, the innocent victims, that's why we have Medicaid.

To: gg cox who wrote (4148)	2/2/2008 2:33:02 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

"too busy scratching out a living and wondering where the 12 thousand bucks is coming from to pay health insurance premiums for a family of four." Hmmm. Maybe they could get a job. As much as I would love to be free of work requirements, I find it a necessary evil so that I don't have to pay the entire health insurance premium. OTOH if government would get out of the way of the free market premiums would decline. As Canada's experience with Socialized Medicine proves the idea of speedy free medical care for all sounds great to some, but waiting three months for a life saving procedure only to expire after two does not exactly fit that description.