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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (130067)	2/4/2010 12:09:18 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541957

The really poor are covered by Medicaid. I didn't in that post or in this conversation suggest any changes there. The post wasn't about the really poor, but rather a possibility about what could be done to keep extremely expensive treatment from causing middle class people to join the ranks of the really poor. Middle class people should be able to pay for annual doctors visits (and if the government pays for it, middle class people will essentially be paying for it anyway through their taxes, at least those above "lower middle class"), but they could easily have a problem paying for treatment for AIDS, or for long term cancer treatment. But if you don't provide the really poor with regular doctor visits you pay big time when they get REAL sick because they didn't see a doc when they should have. Paying for the doc visits may (to the extent its necessary which it shouldn't be or the middle class) bring about better results, but it doesn't lower costs. It will tend to increase costs. I thought the idea behind health care reform was to get the overall cost down? This isn't going to help. It isn't supposed to help, its covering another point in the health care reform issue, that of expensive medical conditions bankrupting people while at the same time leaving them uninsured. Other measures would be directed towards cost containment.