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

To: TimF who wrote (4711)	2/21/2008 11:56:39 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

You have to put your opinion, that insurance is the most important thing for them to get with their money, In my experience, one of the biggest difficulties with creating systems is that people conflate requirements and design. They think, for example, that there is a requirement for neighborhood ice cream wagons. No, the requirement is for easy access to ice cream. The design is the ice cream wagons. You could, alternatively, install vending machines or a 7-11 on every other block and satisfy your requirement. The ice cream wagon may be the best design, but it is not a requirement. Likewise, there is no requirement for universal insurance. Insurance is design, not requirement. The problem with this common fallacy is that you get tunnel vision and miss other opportunities to solve the problem. Sometimes people get so locked into their design that they lose sight of the problem and end up not solving it. It's really sad. And it's really hard to get people refocused on the problem.

To: TimF who wrote (4711)	2/21/2008 4:46:25 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

" To get "universal coverage" you don't just have to help them get insurance, you have to force everyone that declined insurance to get it. You have to put your opinion, that insurance is the most important thing for them to get with their money, ahead of their opinion." That is correct. Many people object to paying for SS and Medicare now but everyone must contribute to help pay for those who need the benefit now. That spreads the cost among us all. It will be there for the current young healthy folks when they need it and particularly when they need it most. It's also very important for coverage of children.....you know of any children that have never needed medical care? Now they go to ER's for very expensive service. How many seniors do you think have SS as their only source of income? No idea....get a local newspaper and read the letters to the editor... Are you or any of your family receiving SS and Medicare? Are any refusing it?