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

To: Road Walker who wrote (10327)	10/8/2009 7:24:59 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

you make the perverse incentive favor consumers and reduced costs. And you end up with a different set of perverse incentives and unintended consequences that you are stuck with because it's the entrenched law of the land.

To: Road Walker who wrote (10327)	10/8/2009 8:16:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The fact that their are perverse incentives in the current system, doesn't negate the fact that its reasonable to think both that a government system will be inefficient AND at the same time think that such a system will tend to crowd out private insurance companies for the reason I mentioned, the government would likely in one way or another support the "public option". As for defending the current situation being impossible from a free market perspective - Well in isolation that might be true, but against an even less free market setup, not so much.