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

To: longnshort who wrote (15080)	3/22/2010 11:04:44 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

you use your allotment of healthcare and they take the rest out of your acct without knowing it First of all, that would be illegal. Secondly, they'd surely get caught. I see no motivation for them to do that. The government has ways to get money from us legally. It doesn't have to resort to petty theft. did you notice you said "I" pay, there's the rub. that's different then "they take" It's exactly the same in this context. Whether "they take" an agreed-upon sum out of my account to pay my health insurance bill or whether "I pay" for my health insurance via an automated transfer to them, the same thing happens--money leaves my account, sent to them, payment is registered. Actually, "they take" is more technically correct. You do the paperwork authorizing the transaction, give it to them, they set up the process, and then they take the action with your bank to effect each transfer.