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

To: John Carragher who wrote (7613)	7/18/2009 7:28:45 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

in controlling health care costs we should review how items over the years have been added to our health care programs that may not really be health care , rather are social programs. Being discussed as part of the pending legislation are bike trails, parks, and other recreational venues. I understand the link between activity and health, but diverting funds from actual illness to provide them is a real stretch of "health care."

To: John Carragher who wrote (7613)	7/18/2009 1:42:53 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Healthcare must have at least a significant element of free-market-like self-adjustment. When things get covered - or "uncovered" - according to decisions made by groups of bureaucrats, we better pray that those people sitting on committees and voting know what the in the world they are doing. Otherwise, they'll end up covering unnecessary items, and refuse funding for things which really may make a difference. The problem is that often it is not possible to know in advance what will prove valuable. This means that even assuming that our future healthcare functionaries will not be subject to personal hangups and corrupting influences, the odds are that they will still mess up. If years ago chip companies would "cover" certain directions of research and production, and not others -- today, I would not have my I-Phone and my laptop. If the whole planet will decide to go socialist, we're all in big trouble. Fortunately, some nations who've been there, like China, are moving in the opposite direction.