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To: GST who wrote (199796)	5/3/2009 10:45:13 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 306849

Please get back to me when you are fired and lose your coverage and tell me if your views have changed. Wait a minute. I've never advocated any position that a person should not be able to purchase insurance. I fully support a requirement that insurance companies offer insurance to those with preexisting conditions, which would eliminate this problem without gutting the quality of our health care system. I fully support the creation of some kind of "assigned risk pool" -- as is done with auto insurance. Don't just assume that everyone who opposes gutting the current system doesn't want to fix the current problems. But you must understand that the current system is, overall, better than any other in existence. It is true that 5% of our population need help in obtaining insurance coverage -- either because they can't afford it or because there are preexisting conditions; but this problem can be solved readily. Fix that problem. But don't ruin the system that already works better than any other in the world for 95% of people. When you start talking about "Single Government Payer" and buying insurance for people who have simply chosen not to have it, you destroy the integrity of the system. SGP, in particular, will destroy health care as we knew it -- and that's where the argument that the problem is in the payment system eventually leads you. If you put the government in charge of paying, with the ability to cut payments (as they now do routinely to certain classes of providers) you are going to destroy the health care system. Yet, this is what many believe must be done to cut costs. Those individuals simply don't understand the problem.