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

To: Road Walker who wrote (11071)11/5/2009 9:13:03 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
Taking the "best in class" part as fact, I think the answer would be that our system is so expensive we can't afford universal care; in fact can't afford our current non-universal system going forward, given the demographics.

Can't argue with that. But then what we're really trying to do is effectively thin our best-in-class system by spreading it more evenly. Funny, the proponents aren't presenting it that way.

I wonder what that will do to life expectancy...



To: Road Walker who wrote (11071)11/6/2009 9:24:40 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
Taking the "best in class" part as fact, I think the answer would be that our system is so expensive we can't afford universal care

True. We also can't afford a massive new tax on healthcare and the rationing that would follow the proposed government take over.


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