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From: "George Conklin" 
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Subject: Re: Single Payer Universal Health Care
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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 23:15:21 GMT
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"Jonathan Smith"  wrote in message
news:fbcaefd.0405251201.368ec76@posting.google.com...
> mike gray  wrote in message
news:...
> > Skeptic wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > >> With single payer, you've always had the coverage, so how can there
be a
> >  pre-existing
> > >> condition?
> > >
> > > Will all coverage be equal?  Will there be levels of coverage?  Will
there
> > > be coinsurance?
> >
> > One of the barriers to universal health care is the leveling of
> > coverage. For the uninsured and underinsured, that's great news, but for
> > union members, government employees, and employees of generous companies
> > it will be a huge loss.
> >
> > All proposals to date have permitted coinsurance,
>
> Which proposals are those?  Kerry's?  Kucinich?
>
> > primarily to satisfy
> > the groups that now have Cadillac plans: their employers could offer
> > group "gap" coinsurance. The result is a two-tiered system, those with
> > basic benefits and those with enhanced benefits, but more equitable that
> > the current system.
>
> Hardly more equitable.  Reminiscent of Orwell's Animal Farm - all
> animals are equal, some are just more equal than otehrs.
>

    The current system of making medical access a privilege is just that:
many patients are more equal than others.