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dpb

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On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:47:35 -0600, dpb wrote:

I'd love to think whatever they end up doing will have such a miraculous
happy ending but can't see how it can possibly be w/ the cost models
they're making up to support it and the requirements on insurance companies.

It's back to the same old question. How do you think other countries
are doing it and surviving? Granted populations sizes are going to be
different, but if you consider it to be funded by a certain portion of
GDP, then the model should operate pretty much the same way.

Not necessarily at all. Demographics aren't at all the same, either, as
well as just numbers.

And, not all these other countries are doing so well, either; or their
systems aren't all functioning as well as might be hoped. Recall GB
some years ago when they went bust? Japan has been in almost 20 year
stagnant at best, France is beset w/ strikes and all sorts of troubles
simmering just under the surface...

And, of course, the US "plan" being proposed isn't one of those anyway,
it's a hodgepodge of stuff and includes a significant fraction of the
supposed cost for the new stuff to come by reducing current expenditures
for Medicare which is some trillions upside down already and has
difficulty getting providers to accept patients for the present
remuneration what more w/ further reductions.

No, I don't see much (as in any) hope of what's being proposed having
any success at all in accomplishing what's being promised it will do. I
do see it creating another humongeous federal bureaucracy and and
bottomless sink for revenue.

I can see some reforms/modifications of systems but these folks running
the show at the moment can't seem to see anything but that it's the
government's job to do everything for everybody whether they want it or
not or whether there's any way to pay for it or not.

And we've not even started to see the impacts of what Cap'n Trade is
going to do to destroy what little competitive position w/ have left in
global marketplace if it goes. If folks think employment situation is
tough now, wait'll manufacturers' input energy costs double or so while
rest of worlds' don't change significantly and see how that works out.

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