"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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The "guy/gal working for a living" are simply the largest sub-set of the
larger class of consumers. Consumers, you will doubtless be surprised to
learn, pay for EVERYTHING. The precise route the money takes in its
endless circulation may be of interest for any number of reasons, but
whether the feds or the insurance companies get a larger chunk of the bits
that go to health care on its way round and round is irrelevant in and of
itself. The real question is who makes more efficient use of it en route.

That troubles me...

It should.....but not for the reasons you think.

What I think and my concerns are having our no-so efficient government take
over something as huge and complex as health care, "free" health care would
need to be paid for through higher taxes or spending cuts in other areas,
how flexibile would a government mandated system be, will people increase
there doctor visits, medications, etc... making the cost for health care
much more than they currently are, will healthy people pay the burden for
people that are not so healthy, transitioning to a universal health care,
lost jobs, business closure, if spending is out of control there will be no
turning back with a government run plan.

JT