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On Aug 11, 8:30 pm, "John R. Carroll" wrote:

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If you're happy with your coverage and doctors, you can keep them.8 But
the
new public plan will expand choices to millions of businesses or
individuals
who choose to opt into it, including many who simply can't afford health
care now.


If the government plan is subsidized by the government, it will be
more attractive to have than private insurance. And private insurance
will disappear. If the government plan is not subsidized by the
government, it will be just as expensive as what we already have and
which many can not afford.

I didn't read this whole post, Dan, but this point is demonstrably
incorrect. Right now we have Medicare co-existing with at least two types of
private insurance ("Medicare supplemental" and full-blown PPOs that pick up
where Medicare leaves off; and some well-off people have a private plan that
completely duplicates and supercedes Medicare.)

And if private insurance should eventually disappear, boo-hoo. It's a foul
institution as it is.

--
Ed Huntress