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

To: TimF who wrote (14349)	3/10/2010 6:25:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 42652

Good points. The insurance underwriting argument is a good one. I hadn't thought of it that way. On a different thread, I had made the argument in favor of price discrimination based on health factors as a necessary free market paradigm, which would also provide people the incentive to stay as healthy as possible. But that argument always draws lots of boos and flames, which is consistent with the American mentality of "I want to eat my cake every day and not get the high cholesterol that would come with it." So although, when I think with my heart I'm in favor of no pre-existing conditions checks, my logical mind tells me that this could lead to healthy people paying for the bad habits of willfully unhealthy people. Of course, there's always the cases of people with conditions that are genetic or not their fault at all. Very complicated issue.