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Thread #122219 Message #2711776
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
29-Aug-09 - 07:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nationalized Healthcare, good? bad?
Subject: RE: BS: Nationalized Healthcare, good? bad?
""Does anyone think that given the choice--Private Insurance or Universal Health Care--that people would willingly choose to keep their private insurance? OK, even if ya have LOTSA money, do you really want to give an insurance company thousands a year when you could give $1000/year?""
Still happens in the UK Bruce, and here it's the difference between paying private insurance, and paying nothing at all.
Of course, the private insurance still won't pay out on pre-existing, and long term, conditions, so even those who choose private care have to go to the NHS for those.
Don T.