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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (118985)	8/20/2009 3:58:46 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542788

You may be looking at one of the unanticipated consequences, Steve, but I don't think so. The mandate creates a largish new population to buy health insurance. And, so the argument goes, enough so that the health insurance folk, who should know, think it will offset, my own guess is that it will more than offset, the costs of not fighting the preconditions regulations. But the public option notion, at least in this argument (my own is to see it, hopefully, as a slide into a single payer system) is to discipline the private insurance providers, particularly, I suspect, in the states in which they have virtual monopolies. That gets to the notion that the upward price curve gets slowed, bent, pick your metaphor. Best of all possible worlds for these same insurance providers would be a mandate without the competition of the public option. My guess is the overall, macro level cost of health care would, be much worse than now.