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To: bentway who wrote (648525)	3/22/2012 2:10:49 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577188

>> You KNOW what the Swiss national healthcare covers? I seriously doubt that. I don't know the details. I am simply pointing one particular item. But if you read up on the Swiss health care system you'll find expensive, mandated coverage operated not by government, but by nonprofit insurance companies, with substantial copays and deductibles, as well as significant limitations on coverage. I think it is a pretty good system, personally. Precisely because it does NOT cover unimportant crap that people ought to pay for themselves. It wouldn't work here, however, as it doesn't have a "government run" component like Medicare or Medicaid, and these are the very things that screwed up OUT health care system. If we could get rid of those two, we wouldn't have a problem in the first place. Also, we have a problem in that parts of our system that perform well (Medicare Part D, for example) are quickly gutted of critical components and promptly destroyed by Democrats. The Swiss apparently don't have great monied interests inflicting undue influence on their legislators.