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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
It will, but it will be other pockets that will be filled.
I can't judge as I haven't read any stories like this, the only thing I know that ANY TIME there is something happening in healthcare in UHC countries - it's always the top news, why?
Because it's NOT widely accepted to not to treat people who would be too expensive to cure or not to insure those at all..
This is again a total misunderstanding to the UHC model - someone really painted a MASSIVE DEVIL on the wall.
There are NO dollars to be "assigned" to your life, you get what you have to get according to the diagnose, there is NO question about how much that costs.
It's NOT private companies deciding if they want to pay to keep you in shape or not, according to the diagnose and your premium world's most expensive program (if you are lucky to get any insurance at all).
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Well, the DEVIL on the wall, IMHO, is how UHC advocates paint the current medical system. Yea, I'll agree, its less than ideal in many cases and needs reform, but the number of uninsured in this country is relatively small, at 15%. If you break down those stats even farther, you find that 60% of those people are well ABOVE the poverty level. Your likely to find big screen tv's in their homes and all the bling they can carry, because they have made a conscious choice not buy health insurance. I'm not one to put a gun to the horses head to make them drink.
63% of the uninsured are below age 34.... the healthiest age group.
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is no crisis. Most definitely not large enough to create what will surely be the largest gov bureaucracy we have to date, along with a huge tax increase, that will once again overburden the middle class with the weight of it.