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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (5214)3/3/2008 8:16:18 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
but no one can prevent you from paying for a private plan of your choice....

Not so. No one has to offer a private plan that doesn't assume Medicare coverage as primary. If no one sells one, then you are effectively prevented from buying one.



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (5214)3/3/2008 2:59:56 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 42652
 
There is no law preventing it, but there has to be such a plan in order to buy it, and Medicare drives any such plan out of the market.

You can of course avoid Medicare by not having insurance (or effectively "self insuring")


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