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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Why not have the government collect all fruits of production, and then distribute it all back to the people in an equitable manner?
Confidential to SAM
did I misunderstand Ty's post?
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[CONFIDENTIAL TO HANK]If you want to do the confidential thing, you have to use the special tags.[/CONFIDENTIAL TO HANK]
Can we review the bidding? Not me said, let's require everyone to get at least a certain level of catastrophic coverage, and those who really can't pay for it will get vouchers. My question: Why not just provide it to everyone, and pay for it with tax dollars? What's the difference? Presumably you want competition among the providers, and it's not a sector of the industry with robust competition right now because people aren't choosing to pay for that coverage much. So you set up different government providers that will compete with each other.
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[SUBTEXT]We already provide a certain amount of baseline coverage to everyone, in that you won't get turned away from an ER or dismissed from a hospital if you are in medical trouble of certain types. The rest of us pay for this now, one way or another. Not me's intuition is, hey, let's make sure that people have some coverage so they can't be free riders. And mine is, hey, the government does a pretty good job of collecting taxes, so let's solve this problem by collecting taxes, rather than finding some way to enforce new requirements to get insurance (the US Attorneys' offices are going to prosecute you for this?).[/SUBTEXT]
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