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

To: i-node who wrote (6845)	6/1/2009 8:53:05 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Tort reform would probably do as much as anything. This would probably have to be the first step. Adopting arbitration of some sort would create two armies of under- or unemployed lawyers - both litigators AND defenders. As a result, imo, people's minds would clear and they'd be able to begin thinking what else needs to be done. Economic declines are not fun... but it appears that we may be entering one - and a major one at that. If that happens, the system will probably undergo big changes in the next several years, whether we like it or not... we may find ourselves living in "interesting times". It takes a very wealthy society to come up with 30K annually in health care costs per elderly couple.

To: i-node who wrote (6845)	6/1/2009 5:07:06 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

You have BCBS supplemental, I assume, which is a different thing. I have federal employee BCBS, same as I had before I reached Medicare age. I pay the same for it as I always did. The only difference I think is that Medicare pays first and BCBS doesn't charge me deductibles or co-pays. I know that staffs in doctor's offices salivate when I tell them I have federal BCBS so they must be getting paid more than just the full Medicare rate.