>>>>>All those liberals want is to have health care for everyone.
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>>>>Everyone has health care. You pay for yours, I pay for mine.
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>>>It is a bit different that that. You both pay for insurance, which pays for both.
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>>Not exactly. For most of my life, my family only had a catestrophic emergency plan (really high deductable, very low cost). Day-to-day costs were paid out of pocket.
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>I would think that is prohibitively expensive these days.

My wife was still doing this for the last 3 years, before we were married.

>One of the reasons health care costs are so out of cost in this country is most of us have health insurance and are hence distanced from the bottom line cost.

Agreed.

>When you take little Jimmy to the doctor to find out if he just has a cold with cough or strep throat, the perceived cost is $20 or however much the copay is. Whereas the doctor's office bills the insurer what, $200 or $300? That's just a guess but for sure it's a lot higher than the copay.

Not sure the actual number, but the point is valid.

Another consequence of the distance from the bottom line is more frequest visits. When I had a cough as a kid my mother gave me cough syrup and told me to go play. Now it seems that every sniffle is a five alarm emergency.