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

To: Alighieri who wrote (16109)	4/5/2010 8:34:20 AM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Clearly there would have to be guidelines and limitations, cost control measures, co-pays, deductibles, etc... If you do more stuff because you add people and increase coverage, more money gets spent on health care than would otherwise have been spent. Even if the controls were more stringent under the PO, and we have no evidence to support that, the savings would be at the margins. It would be dwarfed by the influx of new business, additional stuff being done. If you want to argue that despite increasing numbers of insured there would be less stuff done, I will give your rationale a fair look. But you're telling me that you would be saving money by buying for yourself ten extra pairs of skis because they're on sale. You wouldn't. You'd be out the sale cost of ten pairs of skis.