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

To: Alighieri who wrote (13745)	3/2/2010 12:34:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

along with automation of records to reduce duplication Automation is primarily an aspect of implementing an already existing idea. Not something that we need some big government reform of an entire industry to do. regulation of fees and services into prevailing rate schedules Because we all know how well prices controls have worked out in the past... In which bill? You didn't say "government take over of health care insurance isn't in the bill" (and if you had said so, you'd still largely be incorrect), you said no one had proposed it. Its been proposed almost continuously. "Mandating purchase, mandating sales criteria (no exclusion for preexisting conditions), setting prices (at the very least controls on prices for people with preexisting conditions), mandating coverage levels..." Are you actually suggesting we these are positive aspects of our health care system that should not be addressed? I'm suggesting controlling them is to a great extent a government take over of health care. To which I'd add that its also very unlikely to make those aspects better than they are now.