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Article #126Re: ACTION: Fight Health Insurance Attempt to Block Reforms
From: Robert L. McMillin
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 17:14
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 17:14
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1993 16:04:54 GMT, tse@foolish.apple.com (Gary Tse) said: > | Or > | if you really find another system that works better, switch. But I have > | enough advantages with Kaiser (same day appointments, cheap prescriptions, > | weekend walk-in with 20 min wait max) that I'm hesitant to switch. > Absolutely. Stick with it if you are happy with it. You seem to > have found good doctors within the Kaiser system. Congratulations. > Don't lose those doctors. > I was not and am not happy with Kaiser. So I am using another > health provider now. Clinton and his state-happy minions will be loathe to allow you *any* choice in the future. You will get what you get, which will be provided for by the insurers and the HMOs. This is absolutely *not* the kind of reform that's needed. What we do need is to make health insurance deductable for individuals and not organizations; that way, base pay could go up and people would be responsible for managing costs at the dollars-and-cents level of where things happen. If people are given resources that behave as though they were infinitely cheap, they will abuse them. That's why single-payer health-care is such a sham. Even reducing the number of payers, as Clinton is suggesting, will ultimately have negative effects, because the payers are not the users. Until this happens, we can count on costs continuing to skyrocket and nobody being very satisfied.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 110784,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gid110784,public X-Google-Thread: 114544,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gid114544,public X-Google-Thread: ffe14,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gidffe14,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 10b557,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gid10b557,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 102fd5,f2e3b101a4c77e8a X-Google-Attributes: gid102fd5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-09-27 10:53:41 PST Newsgroups: ucb.general,ba.politics,ba.general,ca.politics,ca.general,alt.talk.politics,alt.activism,alt.politics.radical-left Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.service.uci.edu!gordius!surfcty!helen!helen!rlm From: rlm@helen.surfcty.com (Robert L. McMillin) Subject: Re: ACTION: Fight Health Insurance Attempt to Block Reforms In-Reply-To: tse@foolish.apple.com's message of Fri, 24 Sep 1993 16:04:54 GMT References: <27no58$jv4@agate.berkeley.edu> <27o2fs$qh3@bmsrs.usc.edu> <pjkCDqo24.GIt@netcom.com> <tse.748728158@foolish> <27stiv$p05@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <tse.748886694@foolish> Sender: rlm@helen.surfcty.com (Robert L. McMillin) Organization: Surf City Software/TBFW Project Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 17:14:08 GMT Message-ID: <RLM.93Sep26101408@helen.surfcty.com> Lines: 28