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Sorry, Sid, I'm not buying. The only way to get single payer is for the govt to be the payer. I want to see the govt run any other system efficiently and humanely before they get their hands on the profession that I have dedicated my life to and everyone depends on to stay alive and well. The only reason the post office works as well as it does is that it has some competition in FedEx, UPS, DHL, and it takes more and more $ to do less every year. Let the govt run a basic clinic system if it wants to try, but it's mandatory to have some private competition.
The only way to get young healthy guys to join the insurance pool is for there to be serious consequence for not joining. These guys are unlikely to get colon cancer, but they do crash their motorbikes and fall down skiing. We may have to leave them lying there until they get up if want to motivate them to buy a basic Blue Cross policy.
I do agree that P4P is a joke- an excuse for some people to say they are doing something, anything, to look busy.
Jul 6, 2007, 3:50:00 PM
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