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Article #140Re: ACTION: Fight Health Insurance Attempt to Block Reforms
From: mross
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 04:09
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 04:09
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Ray (degennar@bmsrs.usc.edu) wrote: : 1) Do you really want a health care program like Canada's? Absolutely. The quality of healthcare I received in Canada is equal or superior to that received in the US. The fact that _everyone_ is covered, without exceptions is a tribute to humankind. The system works. And, considering it is a large system, it works _well_. : 2) Do you really feel that the governmet is capable of effectively : adminstrating a health care program without raising the cost or : decreasing the quality of service? Yes. The cost may rise over all but will decrease _per covered person_. Costs will rise regardless of who is administering the system. Government will impose control, since its motive is not profit (over human lives, I might add, in the case of private insurance). The fact that everyone is covered will _increase_ quality of service, since all service provided will be paid for. Today, covered patients are subsidising bills that hospitals cannot collect, even though they are legally and morally obliged to provide services. This is what will ultimately decrease quality of service if it is not remedied. -- Michael Ross Antigone Press, San Francisco, California e-mail: mross@antigone.com FAX: +1 415 431 3650
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