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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (9653)	2/18/2012 10:41:08 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

If the pool is large enough, and with universality it is, then you have enough healthy people to support taking care of the sick at reasonable rates If your going to care for them, and push it through government force, you might as well just make it a government program, rather than force insurance companies to cover them, and force people to get insurance. That last point is constitutionally dubious. That doesn't only raise the possibility of being struck down, it also raises the point that if it isn't struck down you've allowed the government once again to push past is constitutional limitations. It's a function of the universality AND a government subsidy if you are un or underemployed. Government subsidies don't reduce cost, in fact they often increase costs, it just puts the cost on someone else.