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

To: i-node who wrote (8275)	8/14/2009 4:19:11 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

instead of insurance, it is more like long-term financing for one's health care Health insurance as we know it isn't really insurance but prepaid group health care. If it isn't like insurance now, then it hardly matters if something is added that isn't like insurance, either. there needs to be some way that a person who has preexisting conditions can insured at reasonable cost. I agree. The only question is how best to do it. It is one thing for a bad driver to have to pay more for his insurance, but quite a different thing for a sick person to have to pay 5x what a well person has to pay for insurance coverage. I can see both sides of that. Some illness is a crapshoot. Much illness, however, is a direct result of lifestyle. It seems to me that the moral question has to consider fault.