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

To: Road Walker who wrote (7589)	7/16/2009 2:19:54 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

s the public option/options grow then total costs will be reduced. And what is it, exactly, about the public option that is going to "reduce" costs? Are you referring to the government's purported ability to cap payments to providers, or what?

To: Road Walker who wrote (7589)	7/16/2009 3:31:45 PM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I think he is looking at long term costs, and ways to bring them down. I'll grant you that. But that doesn't mean that 1) his approach to bringing costs down will actually do that (I believe with certainty that it will increase costs and that the true believers just can't/won't see that.) or 2) that he wouldn't go ahead even knowing that costs would go up. My personal and humble opinion is that we are on our way to primarily a single payer system, with insurance companies selling supplemental policies. I share your personal and humble opinion. I probably won't live long enough to see the next phase, which will be to take pity on all those folks who can't pay for supplemental policies either because they were too poor to start with or have been made too poor by the taxes that will have been imposed to pay for the increased costs of the system and scrap the supplemental policies in favor of the single payer system covering everything.