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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (706165)	3/27/2013 5:19:09 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576591

Of course it's an alternative. Is it a viable one? Probably not. So why mention it? Universal health care in America is all but inevitable. Only question is how we get there and whether it will truly be better than what we have today. Inevitable? It's required...it's the only way. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (706165)	3/27/2013 5:38:51 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576591

>> I'm pretty sure it will be better in terms of "equal access" to health care services, and that in itself might be good enough of a reason. But is that worth the enormous cost, both on the ledger and hidden? Ah. The bogus WHO standard. "Equal access". Which means, of course, "equally bad" -- since you can't afford to provide EVERYONE with the level of care most of us now receive. Which will utterly kill innovation, since no one will be striving for the best care (rather, the struggle will to provide some minimal level of care for everyone, and there will be no commercial insurance to subsidize government programs). From an administrative perspective, one has to question how government can reasonably be expected to provide better health care to a larger number of people with lower cost when everything they touch becomes a money pit. Equal access to equally bad health care is not a step in the right direction, and that is fairly apparent.