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

To: John Koligman who wrote (6001)	2/11/2009 9:17:59 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

I'd like to see everyone have the ability to be covered, at a reasonable price, even if that means cutting back on heroic 'end of life' spending that doesn't do much good, and 'over testing' of Americans... Now you are approaching a solution. I totally agree with you on this. If the problem is that too many people are priced out of insurance by Balkanized government mandates then reduce or eliminate the mandates.

To: John Koligman who wrote (6001)	2/11/2009 11:01:16 AM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

So what is the best vehicle for delivering healthcare? It depends on what your objectives are. Healthcare is different IMO from houses, cars, material possesions. Then I would expect your objectives to be different from mine. I think healthcare other than emergency care is a commodity like everything else. I have yet to see anyone able to give a rational explanation for making such a critical differentiation. Perhaps you'd like to try. My objective would be to get the cost of health care down to the point where ordinary, necessary services are affordable. There are lots of pieces to a plan to do that, most of which I've already posted on this board. I would use insurance only for major medical and offer a government program to pay the excess costs for those otherwise utterly uninsurable.