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To: combjelly who wrote (613910)	5/31/2011 2:14:14 PM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576186

Not true. Under Ryan's plan, most seniors would be back like they were before Medicare. With few or no choices. Imagine a 75 year old with a voucher shopping for health insurance in the private market? Not a pretty picture... Al

To: combjelly who wrote (613910)	5/31/2011 4:48:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576186

"Apparently you don't understand what that term means." Actually I do. You usage of the term doesn't show it. If its not lack of knowledge, then it would appear to be either sloppiness or dishonesty. Only in a commodity driven market. In something like healthcare, which is almost all labor, increasing the labor pool mutes this effect. Increasing the supply would typically put downward pressure on prices, but not on the total resources used. Labor isn't very different from commodities in this regard, except that its a highly differentiated commodity. But Ryan's plan would for all but those wealthy enough to plug the holes. Assumes greater holes than what we will otherwise have, which is assuming facts not in evidence. Like where, Tim? Many are single payer. And many others are not, and the US market for seniors is pretty much single payer. Many require purchase of insurance (which is constitutionally dubious in the US, but they don't have our constitution) which itself isn't a free market solution, but is more so then directly providing the coverage or directly providing the care. For non-seniors they tend to be less free-market then the US (even with the addition of Obamacare), but for seniors we are less free market then the norm.