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

To: Road Walker who wrote (24008)	7/2/2012 3:37:25 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

A simple dictionary definition doesn't adequately cover the business process. Encyclopedia articles aren't perfect either, but come closer. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

To: Road Walker who wrote (24008)	7/2/2012 4:31:17 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Don't take the risk basis out of insurance. Or, if we do, at least have the perspicacity and intellectual integrity to recognize that it's no longer insurance and quit calling it that. Why? Honesty in government seems to me to always be a good thing. When there is a concerted effort to convince the masses that "health insurance" is the same as "health care" (as there has been with regard to Obamacare), it boils down to manipulation through propaganda. We've seen this before -- in '92, the Clinton campaign coined the term "investment" as a synonym for "government spending" -- two entirely different things. Since then, the term "investment" is almost universally used to convince people they are getting something for their money that they aren't in fact getting. At the bottom line, these redefinitions of terminology amount to propaganda used to manipulate large numbers of people. This technique may be fine for North Korea, but here a little plain-speak seems more desirable. Call it what it is and let the chips fall where they may.

To: Road Walker who wrote (24008)	7/2/2012 5:05:34 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Insurance is just spreading risk between policy holders while looking for a common denominator of usage to set the premium. A premium is sort of like a Wall Street bail out at the expense of good managers who get penalized and bad managers that reap benefits. The end result is dilution for everyone, i.e. more money that has less buying power or a policy that gives everyone a lower level of care. Insurance is also a financial instrument that can be bought, traded and bet on. Medical tourism to Canada, Mexico, Asia and Eastern Europe will be booming. news.heartland.org en.wikipedia.org