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

To: Lane3 who wrote (4651)	2/19/2008 8:02:35 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Because that involves an assumption that the current standard of care for Medicaid would continue to hold true if millions were added to the plan. That simply will not happen. There are no votes in it. Stated another way, Medicaid is the absolute minimum that the middle and upper class voting population is prepared to do for those who can't do for themselves without feeling like they have done nothing for the most needy among us. Once you start covering larger percentages of the actual voting population, the coverage will expand. If it was so easy, neither TennCare nor Oregon's plans would be bankrupt now. It isn't. Have you ever known anyone who was forced to rely on Medicaid alone? I've known many and the program is hopelessly deficient and bureaucratic. Medicaid often just flat out refuses to pay for for services previously approved and rendered. Does marvelous things for the bottom line. Argue long enough and even the most persistent patient and provider gives up and writes it off as a bad experience.