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Old 09-21-2009, 03:15 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Light of Icarus View Post
The private health care corporations do offer health care at a high price. They tend to cut the high risk clients, like you said. But is it fair to fine people that don't have a job and can't afford this high rated bullshit? Is it fair that senior citizens have to suffer, even though they've contributed to the economy for their entire life?
A plan that fines people for being unable to afford healthcare will not pass. Medicare needs to be rolled over into a public option in which administrators can negotiate prices on drugs and medical devices, and a public option that will fight for its patients and compete with private options will provide a high level of service for seniors. Many other countries provide healthcare for everyone that the WHO rates higher than ours at a significantly lower per capita cost, so it's hardly plausible that our seniors will be left out in the cold in a reformed system that prohibits dropping expensive patients.
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It's only the "best" if you have the money in which to obtain it.
Even then, we're behind the universal systems of developed first-world nations. In no way do I think private insurance should be eliminated, I think that everyone should have access to preventive care and regular treatment.
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