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

To: i-node who wrote (11837)	11/24/2009 9:05:59 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

Sadly we will become a sick, third world country if we don't get healthcare to all of our citizens. We currently pay more per person here than any other modern western world country by far. The stats on this are very chilling. No wonder businesses and jobs are moving overseas. If you can lower costs and provide coverage and keep people from going bankrupt I'm all ears. We have a very, very serious problem in our country.

To: i-node who wrote (11837)	11/24/2009 10:56:24 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

some reforms are required to deal with preexisting issues, coverage portability, etc Lloyd's and other companies sell to health insurers protection for cases when any of their customers run up extraordinary costs. By the same token, they could offer them insurance against losses which they stand to incur as a result of accepting people with pre-existing conditions. A few months ago, I recall, we discussed here a suggestion along these lines. This would basically solve the issue of pre-existing conditions - and it would do so without the government getting involved. It would also help with portability.