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

To: Lane3 who wrote (16263)	4/7/2010 9:32:36 AM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

How in the world would you cost a mechanism, an infrastructure, that wasn't populated? If you just established the mechanism and never let anyone sign up, then the cost would be whatever administration and materials necessary to establish it. Not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. Some staff, some office space, some computer hardware and software. Maybe a few million bucks. Not a cost savings, as you claimed, but cheap. So what? Who said it wasn't populated in the CBO model? In order to determine whether the PO would save money, as claimed, you'd have to put into operation, if not in real life, at least in a simulation. Dude, what do you do for a living? Al