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To: Dale Baker who wrote (130088)	2/4/2010 4:45:45 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541791

Private sector healthcare only works "best" if there is no rule for universal coverage or a minimum reasonable standard of care for all regardless of current or pre-existing conditions. That doesn't mean that we have to switch to an all-public system, though. We can use public avenues for those for whom the private system doesn't work. And we can clean up and invigorate the private system where it needs it for everyone else. We already have a mixed system. We have public systems for the elderly, disabled, and poor. We can't put brakes on costs in public systems without rationing benefits and squeezing the suppliers. Private systems, if we are smart about it, have natural brakes, at least the potential for them. We're going to have a private system whatever we do unless we criminalize the practice of medicine outside the public system because those who can afford it will supplement the public system. So we might as well plan for a mixed system using the vigor of the marketplace where it's most useful and the shared cost of the public system where necessary.