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Originally posted by brianna
than access to BASIC health care?
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The problem is inherent in your statement. i.e. using the term "Basic".
There would be nothing "basic" about it.
Look at the original model for Medicare and then compare it to how Medicare actually performs.
It goes like this:
If I put a bowl of candy on my desk and label it "Free", my candy will be gone in a short period of time because people well take as much as they can carry (i.e. the "basic" flaw in Medicare)
If I charge a nominal fee for the candy, you will only take as much candy as you can afford.
Making something free does not make it work better because of the laws of demand. As price goes down, demand goes up. If the price goes to zero then demand is at 100%. The only thing to stop the demand cycle is to increase the price, nothing else will do it.
Therefore, there is no way to have free "basic" healthcare, it would naturally be abused.
Sinister,
That is a whole new thread and I can only speculate, I don't have the answers. I can merely interpret the data and tell you if it is flawed or not.
My first opinion is to keep healthcare private. The private sector does a much better job of controlling prices (it is more of a ntaural occurence in the private sector) than the gov't sector. And right now, gov't is funding a great deal of healthcare and creating some of our woes.