Well, from what I read it seems that the government has managed to pretty well match the inflows and outflows associated with Medicare for the forseeable future, so why not have them do the same with everyone's healthcare?
Cb
Medicare is taking the old and high risk because your local insurance company does not want them. Now if Medicare could also insure the young and healthy the graph would look much different.
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Yeah...politicians would never promise more in bennies than they'd raise in taxes, would they?
Cb
Clearly stupid pictures of your dog with food are her head don't belongWe just came back from the grocery store.
Clearly stupid pictures of your dog with food are her head don't belong in this forum or any other in my opinion, since you are a moderator I can't filter out your posts, how about acting like a moderator?
A bagel over his tail? The possibilities are endlessCheeto earrings!!
Clearly stupid pictures of your dog with food are her head don't belong
in this forum or any other in my opinion, since you are a moderator I
can't filter out your posts, how about acting like a moderator?
TJ
A. Pictures suck up bandwidth for those on dial-upThere's nothing wrong in my opinion with lightening up a thread with an amusing digression, and it happens all the time here. Why, here's a non-sequitur by one Teejayevans in the Universal Health Care thread:Speaking of tort reform being needed: Washington DC JUDGE is suing a dry cleaners for losing his pants, for ....drum roll please...Ignore the posts if you wish. Personally, I'd love to see the little critter wearing Cheetos.
$65,000,000
But I can't put her on my ignore list, so it doesn't matter how she posted.Thank God(tm) for broadband...
Farthermore, Martha was posting a herself, not as a moderator...
But I can't put her on my ignore list, so it doesn't matter how she posted.
Nevermind, I'll solve the problem another way....
TJ
Really? - What did the Iraq war cost you?
No thank you... just had some ....Probably takes some expensive medical procedure...
"Under Obama's proposal, everyone would be able to obtain health insurance, and the Illinois senator would create a National Health Insurance Exchange to monitor insurance companies in offering the coverage. In essence, Obama's plan retains the private insurance system but injects additional money into the system to pay for the expanded coverage. Those who can't afford coverage would get a subsidy on a sliding scale depending on their income, and virtually all businesses would have to share in the cost of coverage for their workers. The plan that would be offered would be similar to the one covering members of Congress.
His package would prohibit insurance companies from refusing coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
"My plan begins by covering every American. If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change for you under this plan is that the amount of money you will spend on premiums will be less," Obama said. "If you are one of 45 million Americans who don't have health insurance, you will after this plan becomes law."
Obama offers universal health care plan - Yahoo! News
In the 20 pages of this thread there has been very little discussion of what Obama's plan entails. From what I understand, his plan would not require people to have health insurance. If that is the case, it is problematic. People may not choose to buy insurance until they have a health problem and under his plan they cannot be turned down. The ultimate adverse selection problem.