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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Oct 2006
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On health care reform
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:20:59 -0400, wrote:
If we did get rid of all the insurance companies wouldn't we need to
give them a massive bailout?
You do understand the big 5 (health insurers) are quite a bit bigger
than AIG and that was deemed "too big to fail". Is the plan really
going to be to throw more people out of work that GM and Chrysler
combined? I think not, that is why I say we can't afford this.
Single payer doesn't mean no insurance companies. There are many
flavors of it. Netherlands has a variety of single payer, private
insurance, pick your own doctor, blah, blah, blah.
It's about half the cost, longer life span, and more doctors per
patient.
So your view that private insurance will disappear with single payer
is just wrong.
We're reinventing the wheel here because of special interests..
That's the nature of things here. Same deal with nuke energy.
--Vic
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