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The Opportunity of a Century

Brencis Wrote: Aug 25, 2009 3:17 PM
We have had thriving HSA's in South Africa. They work very well and help keep expenditure down. They also act as savings towards retirement medical insurance. (Of course the new Zuma government wants its own version of Obamacare so I'm not sure how long they will last.)

We do have mandated insurance items. In fact 30 basic items are mandated. If you can avoid getting carried away it works very well to mandate the very basics as a protection for the consumer. So blood pressure medication, cancer treatments and other essentials are required in any insurance package.

Keep it to the basics and keep it simple. It works!!

Why can South Africa get it right and the USA can't?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said one correct thing: health care legislation is our "opportunity, not of a lifetime, but of the century." Passage of the bill she supports would put us forever on the road to trillions of dollars in debt, bankruptcy and European mistakes; defeat of the bill will safeguard the unique American recipe for liberty and prosperity.

Pelosi and her friends would give more control to patients over their medical care IF the liberals really wanted to improve quality and reduce cost. Instead, they are trying to push our nation in the opposite direction, taking away control from...

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