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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (379056)	4/18/2008 3:54:37 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1587368

Interesting how you bring up the comparison with auto and home insurance, because no one is calling for universal auto or home insurance. I have said before that if you had a true free market, no employer intervention, none of this "benefit' crap, then health insurance might not be an issue. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper, you would have true competition, and health care costs would have been held down all these many years. You would probably have to have a safety net, as you do now. But after WW2 there were wage controls for all the returning vets and so companies started competing with benefits. Health insurance at the time was cheap... so why not. Now it has become a benefit of employment, and the better the job the better the insurance. You think we can get to a free market from here? No way... pity the politician that trys to take away everybody company paid health insurance. So what's the solution to this F'ed up system that costs twice as much as any other country? The only models I see working are the Euro system that deliver well and cost 1/2. With millions of boomers retiring, we have to get the cost down... NOW.