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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8099)	8/10/2009 7:32:06 AM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You are exactly right. lj

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8099)	8/10/2009 8:16:37 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

At the regulatory level the real decisions will be made. Once the framework gets passed without much review the socialists will start the real work of denying care. Over the last couple of decades the trend has, indeed, been to pass sketchy law and let the regulatory process work out more than just the details. I find that unfortunate, too. However, I think you underestimate the deliberation process involved in implementing regulations. I have been engaged in resolving comments on proposed regulations. They get a lot of input from a lot of sources and extreme positions prevail only when interested parties fail to participate. I regret the amount of effort it takes for interested parties to participate and the cost of that activity but the results are typically sensible middle ground. Again, I think you are letting your concerns exaggerate the likelihood of a worst case scenario. I don't question the path to the worst case scenario. I only suggest that it's likelihood is way closer to none than to slim and too far out there to be a real probability.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8099)	8/10/2009 10:02:13 AM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> At the regulatory level the real decisions will be made. This is the process. And one page of a bill can generate 10s or 100s of pages of regulations. When this bill becomes law, we could well see something resembling the regs set out under the Internal Revenue Code -- with processes that are just as onerous for a person who is wronged by it to receive any "justice". I think this is the real reason we are seeing so much anger in the community. People have dealt with IRS, SSA, the Post Office, and every other government agency, and they do not want to deal with it for their health care.