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

To: FJB who wrote (36213)	4/26/2014 3:55:43 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

From a related article -- "And consider Geoff Hirsch, age 35, a molecular biologist from Brighton, Colo., who enrolled in an Aetna SRC mini-med when he signed on with Aerotek, a temporary staffing company, after the company he worked for folded. The plan, which cost $89 a week (about $386 a month) for himself, his wife, and their infant daughter, pays a maximum of $5,000 a year per person, with an outpatient maximum payout of just $1,500 per person per year." This, it occurs to me, is a direct result of confusion in the minds of some people (in this case, a molecular biologist) about what insurance exists for. And whose fault is that? The plan discussed above has little, if any, risk-management attribute and is tantamount to a financing plan. Precisely what this administration is promoting, for most people -- where contraceptives are covered by insurance but one has to come up with real money to have any significant medical procedure.