Just another note on this. Tomorrow I take my daughter for a sports physical so she can play intramural sports in highschool next year. My insurance does not cover that (although it does cover an annual physical so why it doesn't cover a sports physical I don't know) so I will have to pay $30.00 out of pocket for it (what her physician charges). Not an unreasonable cost. Now those that cannot pay (according to our local government) because they earn less than the median income can get a voucher and take it to their doctor's office and the state will reimburse the doctor for the cost of the physical. So the student's family pays nothing. Of course, that is only if your household earns less than the median income and that may only be in our state or even county. I think it has to do with how a state spends federal dollars given to each school system.

Of course if the student cannot afford to pay the $30.00 for the sports physical I don't know how they would even play sports since some of the uniforms now cost over $300.00 and the state has severely limited what type of fund raising can be done by students and schools...


>>I see we will always disagree. I STRONGLY disgree, and while I hope that it never comes to pass here in the U.S., I am afraid that the U.S. may be moving towards your ideas and will eventually be there whether I like it or not.
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>What I'm afraid of is that even if any sort of a health system is once built here, it will turn out to be a negative proof-of-concept, as in "haven't we told you it can't work?".
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>I've seen systems built on such premises, where majority of players weren't sold on the idea at all, and they botched it massively, just to make their point. So, I'm not even holding my fingers crossed. It's only "I wish".