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

To: TimF who wrote (11872)	11/27/2009 9:23:27 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The bottom line is that the path that those pushing for the government takeover is a monopsony. They will get it as soon as they can. If they can't get there in this bill there will be another, and another, until we have government as the sole payer for healthcare. At that point in time the rationing will begin in earnest. the problem there is the government outlawing other forms of payment. In many other countries with socialized medicine this is exactly what they have done to deal with doctor shortages. If the best doctors decline to participate because they would like to earn a reasonable compensation rather than a government minimum wage then government takes their services by outlawing their practices.