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

To: Road Walker who wrote (13860)	3/4/2010 9:41:31 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

How do you propose we get "there" from "here" with the rest of health care? I don't think there's any way to get there politically. Too many people think that health care should grow on trees. But if we wanted to do it we'd go back to an insurance model where we bought major medical policies against the risk of big, bad things happening and we'd use other mechanisms for the regular stuff. Other mechanisms would include paying for each service ourselves, maybe using HSA's for the money, using providers that worked by capitation or concierge-type services, and Walmart-type clinics. Providers would publish qualifications and price lists, just like any other business.