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Re: John Edwards' plan for Health Insurance
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Originally Posted by wrxsti
The solution to the healt care problem is quite simple:
1. Limit malpractice settlements to the proven lost wages of the victom. No more punative damages.
2. Stop providing costly emergency room care to those that cannot pay. They can be quietly euthanised out of site of the public.
3. Eliminate medicare and medicaid. Old and infirm people are no longer productive members of society anyway. The cost of providing coverage should be balanced with the future worth of the person recieving the care.
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Actually, this would not stop the cost of health care from rising as it would simply cull the poor and inferm leaving the very top of the economic food chain to strive ever harder to prevent themselves from falling into that subset. This is what is driving prices actually, the wealthy.
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