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Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (126612)	2/8/2008 3:46:32 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362992

Health care is most definitely a pay-it-forward system. The premiums (Medicare taxes)) that younger people are paying into the system now are (on balance) paying for the health care received by sick people now. There's no way the premiums paid by sick people alone would pay for their entire care. Just look at your figures for per capita expenditures in Florida to prove it. If you've ever had a window into how medicine is practiced in Florida, you'd know why the Medicare costs are so high. Every gerontologist wants to work in Florida. Every medical visit is followed by orders for expensive tests which, IMO, are only necessary about 50% of the time. There are probably way more places to go get those tests in Florida than there are in Maine. And if all those snow birds from New Yawk thought they could get better medical care in Maine, they'd be going there for the winter instead of south. The system would never work if, as you suggest, people paid only for their own care and their own risk. That would immediately price every diabetic, hell, every smoker out of the market. It would be like having no insurance system at all.