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That reasoning sorry but ridiciculous and to be fair this kind of reasoning that makes me proud of been european…So because people go to live in high crime areas they die,true, and that does put any problem to u?…so also police for the people who can afford it? Hahahaha seriously it is funny how people can disagree to things such as Human Rights, but i guess half of the thing UN say will sound to you as this socialist utopia, in which millions of people we are living happyly in Europe for over a hundred years, we maybe in crisis now, as they have been before, but for us there is not discussion about such fundamental issues… I understand the logic of ur reasoning, economically its right, sure it is, but u fall in so many mistakes of the functionalism…because u lack to understand that behin those economic decissions, there must to be a moral guidance, and objective to achieve. I undertand that u american have choose those values and moral, and as far u agree on them good for u guys,ill be happy in my side of the atlatic u in urs, it jsut that seriously that point of ur reasoning is VERY weak and quite unrealistic to consider utopia a system that is been working for so many decades, of course there are budget issues, as well they are in any other model and other aspects of the economy.

Today a little happier about be living in utopia.(even if in here we have serious problems, but the objective is try to fix them, but u know for as people dieng of cold, warm or curable deseases…yes is kind of a basic, even if then we have less iPhones per person, I guess everyone choose its values, and then come the economic decisison to support them)

Everything you state ignores my point: people’s focus on having health ‘insurance’ cover everything makes no sense! If anything, the focus on having it cover everything draws attention away from how well it insures against catastrophic risk. Do you know how much your insurance plan will cover in a year or in a lifetime? I do ($5 million, with my out of pocket limit at $10,000). Most people don’t. I can assure you that 99% of those bankrupted by medical bills either had no insurance or their insurance had a very low coverage limit. Yet I am sure that they know what their copay is for a routine doctors visit.

So I am not arguing that our current system works. I am arguing that if we fix some of the problems in the healthcare insurance market it could work quite well.

At least 62 percent of all U.S. family bankruptcies result from medical expenses, reports a study released yesterday in The American Journal of Medicine

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=are-medical-costs-the-leading-cause-2009-06-05

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9447-2005Feb8.html

Nobody’s safe. That’s the warning from the first large-scale study of medical bankruptcy.

Health insurance? That didn’t protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

A comfortable middle-class lifestyle? Good education? Decent job? No safeguards there. Most of the medically bankrupt were middle-class homeowners who had been to college and had responsible jobs — until illness struck.

As part of a research study at Harvard University, our researchers interviewed 1,771 Americans in bankruptcy courts across the country. To our surprise, half said that illness or medical bills drove them to bankruptcy. So each year, 2 million Americans — those who file and their dependents — face the double disaster of illness and bankruptcy.

But the bigger surprise was that three-quarters of the medically bankrupt had health insurance.

Yeah, the cost may end up being the killer of single payer it especially with the medicare payments we have due as baby boomers are approaching retirement. hehe I guess it would just be another ponzie scheme along with social security at this point. Going to be hard to payoff all this national debt and keep things going at the rate they print money.

-but they atleast get access to education which is more than you can say to the millions of Americans who cannot afford/get healthcare access.

I don’t get the insurance example comparing it to other types of insurance. I missed the point in that part. But I think comparing health insurance to any other insurance doesn’t make sense bc they do entirely different things. Car insurance or home insurance work fine but they only pay our for big catastrophes and one time things. Where healthcare is an ongoing yearly thing for many people especially women. It requires many payments frequently. Thus private healthcare is flawed just from that aspect.

Give people with terminal illnesses insurance but force them to live in inner city Detroit. It will prop up housing prices there and serve as a death panel instead of having the gov’t or private insurance do it!

I kid I kid.

Something does have to be done though, what I don’t claim to know.
my health insurance has gone up 17% per annum since I started and I’ve had no claims. That is clearly not sustainable.