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

To: puborectalis who wrote (17485)4/29/2010 6:47:49 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 42652
 
the gov't and private insurance companies would then have every right to jack up your rates

Then that's what they should do rather than mandate personal habit changes. But we've just had health care "reform" where even private insurance can't charge more for higher risk clients. Since we can't charge more, we have to either bear the shared costs of those with higher risks or mandate that they stop the risky behavior. I prefer the first option--charge them more. Neither of the other two is acceptable to me. Sharing their costs is marginally less unacceptable than mandating personal behavior that harms only oneself.



To: puborectalis who wrote (17485)4/29/2010 6:52:34 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 42652
 
Jacking up your rates is very different than banning an activity.

look at how many people gave up smoking when a pack of cigarettes went to several dollars a pack.

Driving people to change their behavior isn't what I want from government.

And its gotten to the point here where you are getting black markets in cigarettes.


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