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

To: Alighieri who wrote (13747)	3/2/2010 12:53:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

There's nothing in that article... Again hardly - "It's simply not true that reform opponents haven't offered solutions. Here's what I could come up with in about two minutes on the Google: In The Wall Street Journal, John Mackey suggested eight reforms that would make health insurance more competitive, more affordable, and more responsive to consumer demand. ... In The New York Times, Ramesh Ponnuru explained why mandatory universal coverage isn't likely to be the best way to solve our health-care problems and suggested, instead, that we break the link between employment and coverage and drop state coverage mandates. There's more out there from smart policy analysts like Arnold Kling and Michael Cannon, as well as from business-minded thinkers like Regina Hertzlinger and David Goldhill. No, not all of these essays and books come with thousand-page pieces of legislation attached (thanks goodness!), but every one of them offers innovative ideas for how to administer health-care and how to pay for it—ideas that, by and large, Obama has ignored." stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com How can he raise premiums of people who don't have insurance? 1 - They pay a penalty if they remain uninsured, technically not a premium, but its increasing their costs. 2 - It will raise premiums, so the uninsured are more likely to stay that way. 3 - The penalty is designed to force the uninsured to buy insurance, to the extent it works, they will then pay the premiums and will face higher premiums.