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To: JohnM who wrote (52066)	3/6/2008 11:02:43 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 540841

offer ways for those who wish and can afford it to add supplemental packages. I'm not so sure how stable that would be. There are a lot of people, at least people I've chatted with here, who find abhorrent the notion that some get better or more health care than others. Equality trumps everything. So we run the risk of either bidding up your high-floor Medicare to something most of the insured are used to, which would break the bank, or reducing the latter group, us, to the Medicare level. I've suggested several times that we could just put those eight million who don't have and really can't afford any insurance on Medicaid, which would be an amazingly simple fix, but they'll hear none of it. They want our Blue Cross for them, not Medicaid. Inequality is unacceptable. So I doubt a Medicare tier for the great unwashed and supplemental insurance for the rest of us would hold up.