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Old 01-28-2008, 09:05 PM
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Default Re: government sponsored healthcare systems

I'm blessed to have retirement insurance from my employer and they fund it at 80% them to 20% me, so premium increases have been reasonable.

There are several facets to this problem of getting reasonably good healthcare at reasonable prices.

First - why does our system cost double that of the rest of the industrialized world? That "ain't" right?

Second - those who have insurance with caps generally go for the max care possible, the sky is the limit, somehow as consumers, we really should be making financial choices too. When is there "too much". And I've had cancer and know firsthand how much this runs, hundreds of thousands.

Third - Lobbyists and the government, maybe it all needs to be torn down and started again.

Doctors/providers, insurance companies , customers (like us) and the government, it's a very complex problem . I'm not really sure what would work