s. keeling wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> No problem with state health insurance, as long as it competes >> *directly* with private ones. > > I'd have no problem with that, assuming I can opt out of paying into > your system, and none of my taxes go to pay for your system.
Everybody's standard of living goes up when some things are a given. Your idea pretty much ensures to continue the national healthcare failure that is the state of American healthcare. Sure, America's a great country to get care if you're really, really sick and really, really rich (extended hospital stays and all the specialty stuff American healthcare does well at makes it extremely easy to rack up $million+ bills with only a very small portion covered by even the best private insurance). I'm obviously not alone in having the opinion that it's probably better to be dead than be so far in debt that you'll live in absolute destitution for the rest of your life. > Why is it I can't buy private health insurance in Canada? Because the > state controlled system needs a monopoly to make it work at all. That > speaks volumes. Because everybody needs healthcare and everybody's already paying taxes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]