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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8058)	8/5/2009 11:54:15 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Whether Obamacare criminalizes private medical practice or not... I take that to mean that you can't make a case that Obamacare would criminalize private medical practice. Which means that those of us who could afford to pay for our own procedures that Obamacare didn't cover wouldn't have to leave the country after all. Rationing and barring [sic] life extending treatments for senior citizens would reduce the average life span substantially. It's hard to say whether Obamacare would ration and decline to fund (my substitute phrase for your "bar") treatments any more or less that what occurs now with lack of insurance or limitations in insurance coverage. My expectation would be that it would pay for many treatments that aren't currently available to some people. Of course, costs would skyrocket but treatments would be more available. It seems to me that the risk of overspending is far greater than the risk of increased rationing. There are limitations on how much rationing could be imposed given that voters would be more outraged by rationing, which hurts real people right now, than by deficits, which are fuzzy and futuristic.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8058)	8/5/2009 2:25:38 PM
From: skinowski	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Obamacare ... would reduce the quality of medical care for the vast majority of Americans. Rationing .... This is all true, but I think the single most serious objection is that the central government in Washington would become way too powerful and huge. This is totally against the principles on which this nation was founded. It's simply un-American. It is true that the government is already in every area of our lives -- but that's not a good enough reason to capitulate and to make it so much worse. Even Vladimir Putin advised us not to go the way of Socialism - because it doesn't work.... and he's a man who surely knows the subject.