01-29-2005, 03:36 PM
Your solution is bad.
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.
It would promote a 2 class system even more than we have today.
We have a serious problem in the US - our floundering healthcare system has reached the point that it is actually proping up large low paying employers(like Walmart) because people with families are forced in their jobs so their family doesnt lose healthcare.
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.
It would promote a 2 class system even more than we have today.
We have a serious problem in the US - our floundering healthcare system has reached the point that it is actually proping up large low paying employers(like Walmart) because people with families are forced in their jobs so their family doesnt lose healthcare.