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From: hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Single Payer Universal Health Care
Date: 26 May 2004 19:41:33 -0500
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In article ,
mike gray   wrote:
>Jonathan Smith wrote:

>>> All proposals to date have permitted coinsurance, 

>> Which proposals are those?  Kerry's?  Kucinich?

>Neither Kerry nor Kucinich have made NHS proposals, though Kerry has 
>promised one as soon as he takes office. His main point, that every 
>American will have the same level of care that members of the US Senate 
>have. Obviously, that is impossible, but he can blame its failure on 
>someone else.

But we should require that any member of Congress who votes
for the proposal should not be able to get better care than
the "universal" health care at any price.  Then see how
well the bill fares.
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