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Last on the healthcare.
Poorgrad, Does your accountant, bank, electricity provider, gas supplier, local McDonalds, home or auto insurance provider, nursing home, "innovate"? No. They provide a service, plain and simple.
I'm self insured for our employee's eye and dental and we use a service which interperts and pays the bills and tells me what I owe at the end of the month. It's a service, plain and simple.
Turtle;
I'm all for anything that will make health care cheaper, but history has shown me that the gov isn't usually the answer. I hope I'm wrong.
Right now, I pay around $1300 per month for family coverage for my employee's. If the government gives the insurance for $1000, I'm all for it and I'll be happy to even give them the extra $300 a month.
What you are forgetting is this is politics. Whatever program that starts will be changed when the encumbents needs votes. Believe me, if the dems needed the womens vote they'd add breast jobs, face lifts and liposuction tomorrow.