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

To: TimF who wrote (12146)	12/9/2009 12:34:25 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

One other major problem, if it hasn't been addressed (and I'd bet it hasn't), is that you wreck the entire health care system's business models. Providers cannot simply absorb the fee reductions Medicare would by default hoist upon them. I'll ditch my current policy and sign up for Medicare and add a nice supplemental policy and still be hundreds per month ahead of where I currently am. Let my [filthy rich] doctor take the hit. I'm glad they've caved on the "public option" but this doesn't look like much an improvement. Unfortunately, I don't see the voters organizing against it; they did what they were going to do back in August, and now Congress is free to ravish the taxpayers at will.

To: TimF who wrote (12146)	12/9/2009 8:17:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"If they operate like any other government agency--pay off your arrearages and we'll restore service--they'll hemorrhage money as people figure out that the sensible thing to do, unless you're already sick, is to buy in for one month, and then "forget" to mail in the rest of the checks." Medicare already has a scheme to deal with this. If you opt out, you pay a penalty premium to opt back in. Since I'm looking once again at opting out, I recognize that the penalty premium looms large.