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

To: Road Walker who wrote (4581)	2/18/2008 11:28:15 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<Well, yes, if health insurance costs $10k per year for a family of 4 and the family gross income is say $40K they may "choose" to have a roof over their head and food to eat and clothing rather than purchase health insurance. Some "choice".>>> It is morally and aesthetically repugnant to me that we are still debating whether we should have universal healthcare. I can understand where it will be a long time before India, China, and all the African nations can even start this discussion, but the advanced nations on this planet (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, etc) have all found ways to provide universal healthcare for all their citizens. We are not even at the stage where we are discussing how to find ways to provide universal healthcare, we are still debating IF we should even try to find ways to provide universal healthcare for all our citizens. Something is wrong with this discussion.

To: Road Walker who wrote (4581)	2/18/2008 3:58:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Health insurance for a family of four will rarely cost 10K. At E-Health insurance for a family of four in Fairfax County, VA its 2760 a year, changing both parents to smokers changed it to 3228. In a randomly selected Chicago zip code it was 3094.92/year (and under $3400 for smokers). In a randomly selected LA zip code, with both parents smoking, it was 3936, and in Dallas (again with two smokers) it was 3528. Even doubling the figures (you want much better insurance, or you have some other health issue which raises the rates), still doesn't reach $10K in any of these places.