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Walter Bright (bright@nazgul.UUCP) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan21.054210.14736@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
: /This example has nothing to do with what we are talking about.  We are
: /not talking about government provided health care (doctors working for
: /the government, hospitals owned by the government, etc) we are talking
: /about having one insurance provider (logically the state or federal
: /government) paying the bills.  Quite different from how the VA works.
: 
: We already got a single insurer for retirement benefits. It's called
: Social Security. I've never heard anyone argue that SS saves money over
: private retirement insurance plans.

Nope.  We have a single *provider* of retirement benefits.  If we
distributed retirement benefits in the form of food and retired people
could only get if from government stores, that would be the same.

I am certainly not impressed with the was SSA runs but we (the voters)
have allowed it to run that way.  The problem isn't inefficiency, it
is the fact that money is paid out of income rather than investing
income.  I see two reasons why this will be a non-problem with
government health insurance:
   1. there is nothing to invest -- it is just a matter of collecting
      and distributing
   2. we get to specify what we want
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