01-30-2005, 03:22 AM
Ghostiger,Jan 29 2005, 09:36 AM Wrote:For societies sake it is cost effective to have everyone get preventative basic health care.
But people are most concerned about a catastrophic illness. Everyone needs health care that covers cancer(which is ussually treatable) heart attacks and massive trauma(car wrecks etc). If people dont have this you end up with a great many struggleingfamilies in utter poverty. This problem would never effect wealthy families who can afford the insurance.
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Huge illnesses and car accidents don't haooen nearly as much as things like the flu or food poisoning, which although may not kill a big percantage of people who get them, do cause problems with work and can cost a good amount of money, so taking care of those kinds of healthcare helps people deal with the bigger things. And as you said, preventive health care costs less money and cuts down on the chance of having a bigger disease that needs far more money to treat.
Maybe the system kandrathe suggested doesn't work as well as a system possible could, but it does seem to work better than some systems now at getting good healthcare for a certain amount of money, considering there are some peopel who may not be able to afford basic healthcare.
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