"good@rock.com" <gooddad@rock.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 21, 6:24 pm, "george conklin" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
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> > "g...@rock.com" <good...@rock.com> wrote in message
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> >> The state should raise taxes to pay for health insurance, and give
> >> money back to the people that can only be used to pay for health
> >> insurance premiums. And then prohibit health plans from
> >> discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions. This way
> >> everyone will be insured on at least some minimum plan. For instance,
> >> you would receive $60 a month or some amount in some way, that you
> >> could use only towards the payment of a health insurance premium. If
> >> you wanted a higher priced plan you would pay more out of your own
> >> pocket.
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> >> Healthcare costs money and there is no way for it to be free. The
> >> government does not make money out of thin air. Either the consumers
> >> pay or the taxpayers pay, or we suffer with inferior service, which is
> >> not what we want either. The above plan insures everyone while
> >> maintaining the free market.
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> >> Seehttp://www.ehealthinsurance.com/for all the different plans.
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> >> Health is more important than wealth. The very least the rich can do
> >> is pay for the poor's healthcare.
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> > $60 a month?? would buy you NO health coverage at all
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> > regardless of pre existing conditions etc
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> > get real
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> As long as we pay medical professionals twice what they do in Europe, our
> health care will cost twice as much. Period.
In some countries like Sweden they have socialized health care for
everyone. One problem with this is that people sometimes have to wait
for months to get certain types of treatment or surgeries. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Sweden
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Non-emergency health care with no money in the USA means you wait
FOREVER. Have cancer? No insurance? Ok, no treatment at all. Zilch.
Maybe charity, if you can find it. Hospitals only have to stabilize you,
meaning they put you back out on the street in a day or two.