BA> ST> What do you think of the Public Option our President is
BA> ST> campaigning for?

BA>I think that if he gets it in short order there will be no private
BA>option as those
BA>insurors will abandon the market.  Employers will dump their
BA>insurance benefit programs on the public option rather than keep them
BA>with private insurors.

BA>Note that congress has underfunded just about every single benefit
BA>program it has invented - including military retirement, BTW.  Since
BA>Joe Taxpayer is going to be on the hook for the lion's share of the
BA>cost of that public option
BA>(anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot), congress will underfund
BA>that, too.

BA>Since it will be underfunded - just as is the VA, the Indian Health
BA>System and the military's health system are underfunded - rationing
BA>by bureaucratic fiat will
BA>*have* to come about.  Health care demand is infinite, health care
BA>resources are
BA>finite, the two will never meet.

BA>Anybody who believes that the "public option" will be self-supporting
BA>- i.e. paid
BA>for by its policyholders - is an idiot.  If people cannot afford to
BA>purchase health
BA>insurance now, why does anybody expect that they will magically
BA>become able to purchase it in the future?  It'll be cheaper?

Until those people be serviced by the healthcare system are writing 
checks out of their own pockets to pay for healthcare, the system will 
remain inefficient and costly.  Right now it is a buffet for the 
insured, with only the payer to throttle the gluttony.  


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 
Hope and change = $1T deficit and 10%+ unemployment .....

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