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

To: Road Walker who wrote (9586)	9/16/2009 7:58:45 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

The other side of that argument is that you limit choice... and when you limit choice you limit creativity and new creative products. There's also a cost factor on that side. If there are a lot of different products, folks can choose low cost ones and save money. With a standard package you get different companies cutting costs. With variety, you get a variety of packages with different costs. Hard to tell which would lower overall costs more. It really bothers me that catastrophic coverage, the only kind of health insurance that is actually insurance rather than prepaid health care, will be unavailable. Insurance is a concept that makes a lot of sense and is perfect for some subset of the population. Killing it just seems sad and wrong, like losing an endangered species or a fire in a museum.