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	Name:	architect -
	Subject:	Again...
	Date:	3/19/2011 8:55:19 AM

Well Hob, I have no idea of the percentage of people on the welfare rolls, but I do know most of them, along with most of the better off uninsured, get healthcare for free now. If they go to an emergency room at a private hospital they are treated for free and the cost is passed to you and me through higher insurance premiums. It they go to a public hospital the taxpayers pick up part of the tab and the insured the rest. Any way you look at it, you and I pay it. The part of "Obamacare" that makes the most sense is similar part of the Japanese system as described by MM... MANDATED private insurance even if the government has to pick up part of the bill for the true needy cases. Most of the people who do not have insurance now could pay for insurance but simply choose not to. Yet, this "mandate" is the thing that the conservative AG's are screaming loudest about. I have no clue whether a mandate is constitutional but I sure think it makes a lot of sense if we ever expect to get costs under even a semblance of control. The interesting thing is that I think I remember both MM and WW saying some nice things about a mandate in the run up to the healthcare vote a couple of years ago. Wonder what they have to say about it now?

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