Originally Posted By: AuntyM
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I choose to pay my $1185.00 a month and cut back on the entertainment dollars. Why should I pay and have the same treatment as the next guy that can pay for ins but chooses not too!


If we had a public option available, he would have to pay, just like everybody else. In theory, YOUR premiums should go down considerably, even for private care.


Like the blind squirrel and nut, Aunty is right. wink Do you agree/understand, Timber? If so, why would you not favor such a system?

Aunty is also absolutely correct about the demonization of any real system change, with several large industries (pharma, insurance, for-profit hospitals, etc.) leading the fight against change and using the media to do so. It is frustrating to see an industry (or the govt for that matter) so easily manipulate a group of people to fight against their own best interests.

My personal choice would be for a universal payer system with payers able to choose between private or govt plan. Once in a plan, medical decisions would be determined based on the "value" of the service. Prepare for that to be demonized as "death panels" (honestly, that system already exists in private insurance industry). This would provide the skeleton of health care, similar to Canada and several other nations. The richest would STILL be able to get additional care ON TOP OR IN PLACE OF THIS because $ in hand will always get you what you want.