Private health care

[The Terrible Sweal]

1) Abolish the present system of public health care, and any and all government to it. Lower general taxes by the amount saved.

2) Regulate insurers to provide a single type of comprehensive core-care policy coverage to each customer, and regulate the quality of service providers through licensing etc.

3) Institute a dedicated tax on health insurance premiums sufficient to purchase private health insurance for everyone whose income falls below $154,000.

[August1991]

1)  Abolish the present system of public health care, and any and all government  to it.  Lower general taxes by the amount saved.

Lower general taxes? That would be a much bigger cash transfer to the rich than the poor. Why not refund all savings to people on an equal basis?

2) Regulate insurers to provide a single type of comprehensive core-care policy coverage to each customer, and regulate the quality of service providers through licensing etc.

Regulate, regulate. Sweal, I would never have though that you've got a functionary's view of life. Why would we want to have a single type of core-care? Heck, even eggs don't come in one-size.

3) Institute a dedicated tax on health insurance premiums sufficient to purchase private health insurance for everyone whose income falls below $154,000.

Now you kind of make sense, and I even like the "logic" of the $154,000 cut-off.

Everybody has enough money to buy health insurance. IOW, everybody is insured. That sounds like the State pays a basic health insurance premium for all and then otherwise gets out of the health business. If we had that, or a variant, Canada's health system would improve.

[JerrySeinfeld]

1)  Abolish the present system of public health care, and any and all government  to it.  Lower general taxes by the amount saved.

2)  Regulate insurers to provide a single type of comprehensive core-care policy coverage to each customer, and regulate the quality of service providers through licensing etc.

3)  Institute a dedicated tax on health insurance premiums sufficient to purchase private health insurance for everyone whose income falls below $154,000.

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Not bad.

[Guest eureka]

I'll deal with this later. All bad ideas.

[The Terrible Sweal]

1)  Abolish the present system of public health care, and any and all government  to it.  Lower general taxes by the amount saved.

Lower general taxes? That would be a much bigger cash transfer to the rich than the poor. Why not refund all savings to people on an equal basis?

Could be good.

2) Regulate insurers to provide a single type of comprehensive core-care policy coverage to each customer, and regulate the quality of service providers through licensing etc.

Regulate, regulate. Sweal, I would never have though that you've got a functionary's view of life. Why would we want to have a single type of core-care? Heck, even eggs don't come in one-size.

We already regulate complex and important products. Like, oh, INSURANCE for example. We already provide core standarization in insurance products such as life insurance. Comprehensive healthcare is probably more complex and would justify an more comprehensive standardization of core requirements. If disputes arise, the insured persons are in extremely prejudiced circumstances as compared to the insurers and so greater protection for them is justifiable.

3) Institute a dedicated tax on health insurance premiums sufficient to purchase private health insurance for everyone whose income falls below $154,000.

Now you kind of make sense, and I even like the "logic" of the $154,000 cut-off.

Everybody has enough money to buy health insurance. IOW, everybody is insured. That sounds like the State pays a basic health insurance premium for all and then otherwise gets out of the health business. If we had that, or a variant, Canada's health system would improve.

Well, now we might be getting somewhere.

[cybercoma]

1)  Abolish the present system of public health care, and any and all government  to it.  Lower general taxes by the amount saved.

2)  Regulate insurers to provide a single type of comprehensive core-care policy coverage to each customer, and regulate the quality of service providers through licensing etc.

3)  Institute a dedicated tax on health insurance premiums sufficient to purchase private health insurance for everyone whose income falls below $154,000.

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Do you ever get bored of this? I'm just wondering...

[The Terrible Sweal]

Do you ever get bored of this?  I'm just wondering...

Bored of the pointless snipes of people who cannot manage a real discussion? Yes.