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To: bentway who wrote (239313)	12/4/2013 1:54:17 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542153

<<<< If you have insurance to help pay for your healthcare, it most decidedly IS a health care cost. >>>> If you have insurance, the cost of your stitch goes up if you insist on including it in the cost of health care (but it's still an indirect cost). Why? Because the insurance company has to make a profit. This isn't rocket science. It's capitalism. ........Even if you throw in a bunch of healthy kids and force them to subsidize so that insurance cost are lower (good luck!) - that does NOTHING to lower the price of a stitch as it just moves the cost from the one getting the stitch to a bunch of unstitched people. If you have insurance and the government subsizes your insurance then the cost goes up more yet since you have the cost of government overhead. ..........If you have government step in and regulate the cost - to keep cost down - then that is socialized regulated medical care. But I haven't seen any hints that is occurring.