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To: TimF who wrote (263063)	4/29/2008 6:03:54 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No, I am not asking about the meaning of the word prosecution but how it applies to Medicare and Medicaid disputes. How does it apply? ---------- I was drawing the distinction between the current system where two patients would get different coverage for the same condition and a single payer system where both would be covered for the same condition equally. In a single payer system, I doubt it would be necessary or advantageous to cover cosmetic surgery in the absence of defects. Some procedures and products would not be covered but they would not be covered for anyone. I do not see the need for private insurance to cover normal medical care if normal medical care is covered for all. There could be different copays for different services such as private rooms but I would rather see the level of service be high enough so that this isn't necessary. We can all fly coach as long as coach is very nice. I don't see a market for private insurance for elective procedures. I don't know how that would work. The costs to the US per capita far exceed the costs to other countries. Other countries have things like full coverage which, all by itself, shows the US system is overpriced and inefficient. I don't know what point you are making when you talk about consumer surplus. No, the part of the system that isn't working as efficiently as the other is the private portion. How many consumers know what UL is? Yes, the FDA is particularly imperfect when market forces (like future job prospects in industry) corrupt it. No, in the real world companies that engage in all kinds of useless or even harmful activities survive. I do not have the time, and neither do you, to check the reputation of every company whose goods are in my shopping cart every time I go shopping. That is nonsense. It is also inefficient and ineffective. So, you are saying that after I'm stricken dead from eating a contaminated product, I will no longer hold the corporation whose product killed me in high regard. Yes, that will certainly work.