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To: quehubo who wrote (323860)	9/12/2009 9:23:15 AM
From: steve harris	11 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793820

If you want your tax dollars to fund medical care for those who cannot pay, then let's have that conversation. But why the effort to destroy the health care I have?

To: quehubo who wrote (323860)	9/12/2009 1:25:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793820

I dont know what the answer is but the majority of people who do all the working and paying taxes are all two steps away from this type of scenario Yes, you're right, and that's the only reason people react to a 'no pre-existing condition' discussion in healthcare differently than they would react to a 'no pre-existing car condition' discussion by a guy who just totalled his new Mercedes after deciding not to buy collision insurance for it. It's part of the screwed up nature of the current health care system where insurance is tied to jobs. If more people had to buy their own insurance it wouldn't be there in the first place. But from an insurance viewpoint, it has to go hand-in-hand with a mandate that forces people to buy insurance whether they want it or not. Or else anybody would be an idiot to buy insurance until they needed expensive medical services. More rationally, you could extend COBRA until age 65, and figure out how to pay for it. Anything would be a thousand times cheaper than what is currently being proposed.

To: quehubo who wrote (323860)	9/13/2009 1:46:22 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793820

Agree. Part of the reason so many people marched today and many cities in the last month is that they WANT the Government to talk to them, and ask them what they need and what. If our Congress and President would do that, things would settle down, and discussions could be completed. THEN they could find the best arrangements to open up the insurance companies to do business in all States, impose tort reform AND a cap from the damages that could incur, and open up the communication to several choices of insurance. I think it should be mandatory that everyone in this country have a catastrophic medical policy. The poor should be enrolled in Medicaid, with a portion of their welfare checks going to pay for the basic coverage....just as SS premiums are paid for over the persons working life, and then we chose to have (or not) a supplemental coverage. I'd like to see the prices of insurances available to everyone that are like the ones that are offered to Government Employees, including Congress and the Adm. How much do the Government retirees pay for the premiums? How much would a larger risk pool have to pay to have premiums like the current govt employees have taxpayer paid... (the employees currently covered but at risk if their employment goes away or they quit their jobs) Obama is on his high horse, and ready to cram ANYTHING he can down everyone's throat....He forgets....(never knew?) that under Hillarycare and her husband's term....the taxpayers were NEVER consulted...they used closed doors. It failed. Now he wants to do the same thing. One just has to wonder why he is SO DESPARATE to toss something together no matter what it is....?