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To: goldworldnet who wrote (301699)	4/18/2009 7:46:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793966

If this country (this affects my family too) falls for universal health care, it will bankrupt the country within a generation. It won't be touted as universal, just a government-sponsored 'alternative' that will of course drive the private competitors out of the marketplace. Where states have tried this, as with Catamount in Vermont, they always try to protect themselves by carefully labelling the program as for the uninsured only. So if you have been self-sufficient enough to buy your own health insurance, you don't get any. I haven't seen any figures on how many people have dropped their own health care to get onto Catamount. But if Obama tries this tack I don't think it will fly, politically speaking. He is far too invested in universal health care. I always thought that the smartest way to go politically was to simply propose Medicare for everybody. But maybe even Democrats could understand how fast that would bankrupt us.