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- From: del@fnx.uucp (Dag Erik Lindberg)
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Subject: Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.211815.1840@fnx.uucp>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 21:18:15 GMT
- References: <1586@nazgul.UUCP> <1993Jan20.071414.4698@fylz.wa.com>
- Organization: I/Ovations
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- In <1993Jan20.071414.4698@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
-
- >Walter Bright (bright@nazgul.UUCP) wrote:
- >: In article <1993Jan18.194858.21798@ssc.com> fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
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- >We don't care about profits in this case. We are talking about
- >eliminiation of an industry that doesn't need to exist -- or at least
- >not in its present form. The costs (the 25% overhead) exists because
- >there are multiple insurance companies that the health care providers
- >must deal with. If this unnecessary intermediary is eliminated (by
- >having one non-profit insurance plan) the overhead goes away. It's
- >that simple.
-
- Assuming that a national health care program would reduce health care cost
- by 20% (and I'm not at all convinced it would), how does this address
- the problem? The problem is that health care costs are "SPIRALING". A
- 20% reprieve will be eaten up in a matter of months.
-
- >I don't understand why this is such a problem for Americans.
-
- I have a problem with it because you have eliminated FREEDOM OF CHOICE
- for me, for a supposed benefit I am not convinced will materialize.
-
- >Americans are willing to shop at Pace and other large-scale retailers
- >that eliminate the middleman. The Canadian health care system is
- >exactly the same -- eliminate unnecessary middlemen and the cost goes
- >down.
-
- There is one major difference between large-scale retailers and a
- national health care system: FREEDOM OF CHOICE. I can choose to go
- to any retailer I wish. With national health care I am forced to
- go with a government "merchant".
-
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- del AKA Erik Lindberg uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
- Who is John Galt?
-