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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:37:42PM -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
> At 09:07 PM 10/22/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
> > OK, granted, the government needs to be kept on a tight leash. Most
> > people will not want the government breaking into their homes.
> > However, I think most people would be willing to vote for a bill
> > that would guarantee insurance for people with genetic
> > abnormalities, even
> > that does mean that some CEOs and stockholders will have less money
> > in their already-full pockets.
>
> You cannot provide cheap insurance by punishing insurers, any more than you
> can provide cheap housing by punishing landlords. It has been tried. A
> law compelling insurance companies to insure the unhealthy will merely
> raise costs for the healthy, resulting in more people going uninsured.
>
> If you want to guarantee insurance for the unhealthy without ill effects
> the TAXPAYER has to pay, and I suspect that if this proposition was put to
> the public, enthusiasm would be considerably less. Indeed the Clintons did
> put something very like that proposition to the public, and there was
> little enthusiasm.
>
Having socialized healthcare would be ideal. However, I think that
the political atmosphere in this country pretty much removes that possibility.
> > > We cannot provide all the medical care for everyone who might want
> > > it. The question then is who decides who lives and who dies?
>
> > We could easily provide healthcare for every American citizen. Just
> > raise taxes a bit, and cut out most of our military spending.
>
>
> We can provide RATIONED health care for every american citizen. And then
> who gets to do the rationing?
>
> Rationing is popular in Canada, because the wealthy skip across the border
> to the US. It would be considerably less popular in the US, because we
> have no unrationed health care conveniently nearby.
>
> James A. Donald
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