"Cliff" wrote in message
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/op...l30health.html
[
As policy makers in Congress and elsewhere debate the nation's health
insurance
options, especially for the nearly 50 million uninsured in our country, it
appears that the main argument against Medicare-like coverage is that
private
insurers would be unable to compete with government on costs, and might be
driven from the market.
]

The same argument was made here when the British Columbia part of the Canada
Health Plan was set up. The solution was to let them become carriers. In our
case most were societies, rather than for profit.


Steve R.