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

To: skinowski who wrote (16577)	4/10/2010 9:26:58 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

They paid into that insurance their entire lives, and should be able to benefit from it. Agreed, but they don't have a right to cut-rate access to any particular practice. If a practice doesn't want to participate, it shouldn't have to. it would be easier to allow those patients who can afford to do so to supplement those payments directly through a concierge arrangement. I agree. What I dislike most about Medicare, personally, is its constraints on the elderly. Sure, it's a boon to many, but it also restricts liberty. Protecting people also constrains them. Many of the constraints in Medicare are there for paternalistic protection. Many of them are there to force equality, methinks. Those who have are constrained from using their own resources in order to avoid a multi-tier system. If they can't elevate the bottom enough, you pull down the top until we're all even. This occurs in countries where private health care is illegal or constrained. I suspect that's what is at play in retainer arrangements under Medicare. There's always a tug of war with those whose primary focus is on equality.

To: skinowski who wrote (16577)	4/10/2010 11:41:53 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>>I think that completely opting out of Medicare is somehow unfair towards the patients What's really sad is that there is enough money in the system to provide first-rate care for everyone in the country. If only the funds could be handed over to competent managers of the money (i.e., the evil insurance companies) for it to be properly managed. The Left wants to allow government to manage it because it is what they (the Left) does. But the reality is that every person in the country could be getting great care for the same money. We would not have all these health care finance problems in the first place were it not for Medicare/Medicaid.