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

To: skinowski who wrote (24325)	7/24/2012 3:13:40 PM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

give up on the egalitarian principle of a single standard of care "I am aware how controversial this is. Maybe to the point of being hard if not impossible to accept. " Henry Ford tried it. You could buy any color of car you wanted as long as you wanted black. The market rejected him because everyone has their own tastes and preferences. Some people will be one of the first 15 in line at 7:00 am and others will pay a lot for care the way they want it. "Like any welfare, it should be a solid, functional safety net, but... unattractive and undesirable as a permanent solution for the recipient." Exactly. Only when we stop trying to give the entire populous gold plated healthcare will the discussion turn to ho we can make it affordable for everyone. I know from personal experience that if you make it affordable you can get young males to participate. They would otherwise go without insurance. They seem to feel like being to asked to pay an amount that includes the risk of cervical cancer and pregnancy is too much. Give people a reliable safety net that forces tradeoffs. Make people pay for incremental improvements from that standard of care. Only when people are allowed to allocate their own resources is that truly compassionate.