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

To: TimF who wrote (4592)	2/18/2008 4:53:43 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Also if the idea is to insure against risk it makes sense to have a fairly high deductible. The health care cost situation would be better if most people had high deductible policies. If a family of four making $40K has a, say $4k deductible then it is pretty much worthless insurance unless there is a major illness. Most decent employee provided programs have a very low (if anything) deductible and small co-payments. Sometimes we get too generic when talking about insurance on this thread. Insurance is like weather... it was in the mid 70's here in FL today; in Chicago it's 16 degrees. Both are weather but very different.