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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
SAM wants to extend something similar to the whole country. I was making a parellel argument using the cutoffs as an example of what would occur to most of us. Agian, I do not have much problem with providing an extended safety net. I have a problem with screwing things up for the vast majority of the country.
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If something similar was extended to the whole country, again, the middle class would not be impacted because they'd be getting health insurance through their employers.
Incidently, did you ever read the Clinton plan? You'd be shocked, shocked! I say, to find that a hell of a lot that was in that plan is currently in effect. Portability (HIPAA), presecription drug benefits (MPDIMA), patients' rights (HIPAA), public health initiatives (look at how the tobacco settlement money was spent), universal health coverage (well, only for kids, but CHIP is pretty impressive coverage considering what was there before), increased oversight by the government (HIPAA (again) and Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1997 in the form of fraud and abuse investigation). The "alliances" between employers that help ration health care? Check out the structure of a lot of the HMOs out there.
