I am in favor of socializing medicine, in general, but the devil is in the details of course.
One of the first things we know to be true is that better preventative care will reduce the incidence of more expensive serious medical issues. Hence the preventative part. So I think that socializing basic preventative care makes sense and is a boon to our society. As for major medical, that needs some good thinking done on it. There are people working on models for better healthcare coverage, like the Apollo Initiative here in Oregon.But I certainly don't have an obvious easy answer. As for rationing, yes, rationing will happen in one way or another. But the rationing already happens by a faceless bureaucracy. My insurance policy doesn't cover all sorts of things, like chiropractic care. I don't get a choice about that and the insurance company is certainly a faceless bureaucracy. In fact, we have BlueCross here at work, which is who denied my wife coverage before. Try talking to the people that decide on coverage some time, it isn't a particularly fun conversation. So right now I have a situation where my basic coverage is decided by a faceless bureaucracy and then it is further rationed by my ability to pay for anything that isn't covered. Seems to me that if we go the socialized route we stand a chance of having better routine coverage for less money and then I'll still be facing a rationing system like I am now. Sounds like a good deal to me. Judah On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you go down the path of Obama's plan, you might as well socialize > medicine. That works for basic medicine- preventative care, especially, but > not for serious medical procedures, which is where the big costs are. Things > like cancer treatment end up being rationed because there just is not enough > money to pay for everyone to have every procedure. So the question becomes > whether you want your health care rationed by your ability to pay or by a > faceless bureaucracy. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:273439 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
