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Much of the country confuses


health insurance with health care.

You buy collision insurance for your car in case something really bad happens. The cost of oil, tires and occasional tune up is not covered by insurance - it is a cost to care for your car and there are consequences if you don't care for it.

Health insurance is for big ticket and emergency type items, health care needs to cost people so everyone has some skin in the game. Make it a sliding scale based on income or something similar.

Someone with a higher income and poor financial skills (need to plan for health insurance AND health care costs in addition to new cars, cell phones and big screen TVs) might get left out of some procedure - but that's going to happen to someone with ANY system - and it is not going to be "fair". I'd just as soon it be people with enough smarts to make some money, but dumb enough not to plan. I also know there will be exceptions where this is terribly unfair - just like now and again will be with ANY system.

Might take a generation or so, but people would learn.


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Posted: 06/29/2017 at 10:39PM



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  Can always count on you. ** -- vthokieq 06/30/2017 09:16AM
  I know one thing: the Federal Government is not the answer -- Hokie Koooster 06/30/2017 08:20AM
  Their cheap and available what? -- HWA 06/30/2017 09:08AM
  Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber ** -- Brown Water 06/29/2017 11:32PM
  Much of the country confuses -- RTFC 06/29/2017 10:39PM
  That's a lawyer problem, not a doctor problem. -- USN_Hokie 06/29/2017 11:37PM
  Over simplifying clap clap clap ** -- CPRVHokie 06/30/2017 09:17AM
  Not an argument clap clap clap ** -- USN_Hokie 06/30/2017 5:09PM
  Ok. Here goes... -- CPRVHokie 06/30/2017 5:48PM
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  I didn't put them in any particular order. ** -- CPRVHokie 06/30/2017 8:31PM
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  Not an argument clap clap clap ** -- CPRVHokie 06/30/2017 5:36PM
  Actually, it is. He's a lawyer. -- USN_Hokie 06/30/2017 8:09PM
  I was pointing out your bias above. Mine? -- CPRVHokie 06/30/2017 8:36PM
  Actually, it is. He's a lawyer. -- USN_Hokie 06/30/2017 8:09PM
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