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To: Cogito who wrote (51628)	3/4/2008 2:30:10 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 543538

We might even reward people more for coming up with effective treatments that are less expensive than current ones. That's a good idea. socializing the healthcare industry might well allow us to provide more services at a lower overall cost. It might. But then again it might not. Given that it's not a step from which we can easily step back, we should try other things first. if they want an even higher level of service. One of the risks in socializing the industry is that a large segment of society has no tolerance for differing levels of service. The people who are now clamoring for a socialized system want it in large part to make everyone equal. They are distress that those who can pay more get better service. So either they will still be displeased with the unfairness of your socialized by multi-tier system or they won't permit the private tier and equal will mean the lowest common denominator.