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

To: Road Walker who wrote (36368)	5/2/2014 1:32:22 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Recommended By Brian Sullivan gamesmistress TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

> Moving to a system where the payer is the consumer, would arguably increase quality, and lower cost. There is no doubt that is the case where free markets are involved. Unfortunately, the law as it now stands kills any free market aspects to the program. Customers are not choosing to buy a product, the law is requiring them to buy it. Customers are not buying a product they want, they're buying a product that is designed and mandated by law, and one that does not even marginally resemble what they would choose to buy on their own. And customers are not getting value since young, healthy people will be required to pay for older people's health care. The effect on young people is they're having to pay for their health care as well as that for everyone who is old than they are. They'll do it for a little while, but then they're going to say, "I'm getting screwed."