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

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (9267)	9/10/2009 3:32:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> According to your logic, health care costs would go down if we all died earlier. Is there any doubt about this?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (9267)	9/10/2009 3:56:16 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

According to your logic, health care costs would go down if we all died earlier. Exactly! The cheapest thing for the health care system would be for all of us to die once we start running down. But, my main point is that bad behavior will lead to greater costs. I understand that. But I think that's more ideology than facts and logic. We want good to prevail and evil to lose. But believing doesn't make it so. All the analyses out there conclude that prevention is more costly in the long run. CBO came out with one of their own. I don't think there's an analytical path to any other conclusion, which is why I keep challenging the true believers to produce one. If they produce one, I gain an insight. And if they recognize they can't, then they learn that they've been preaching a lie.