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

To: TimF who wrote (24286)	7/19/2012 5:09:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If no one can pay more simply because there is no market outside the central payer, then its "technically not price controls, but I'd accept someone calling it that. Then why didn't you accept my calling it that? Just in the mood to argue? <g> I did, after all, describe a system where there was no market outside the central payer. "...setting up a system where 1) virtually everyone takes possession ad libitum of a good or service produced by some members of the community and 2) the good or service is paid for out of a communally funded pot.... Demand will inevitably be greater than the community is willing/able to fund. Thus some measures will have to be put into place to limit demand (ration) or reduce the cost of the good or service (price control)."