>>>>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure9nov09,0,4409342.story?coll=la-home-center
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>>>And ms Clinton's plan is to pour tax money into insurance companies? How is that going to help anybody but the insurance companies?
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>>Have you red her plans? I haven't, but my hunch is that she wants to reorganize the whole system. Instead of private insurance policies (between an individual customer and an insurance company) the U.S. might choose to do it the European way: People pay more taxes and the government pays the insurance companies.
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>It's the insurance companies part that bothers me. If I knew my tax money was going into building a health system for all, I'd be fine with that. As it is, it sounds more like tax money being used to make insurance and big pharma even richer, with no guarantee that there will be a health system for everybody.
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>I'd prefer a system like the British or Canadian - and would actually like to know how does it work in Scandinavian countries. I'd simply prefer to have a one payer system, where the insurance is a common fund arranged and maintained by state (or a state-run agency, under all and any controls people want) and not a for-profit business, which will inevitably try to skim. As seen above.

For Norway, check "American Health Care System vs Norwegian Health Care System" at http://www.daria.no/skole/?tekst=4876