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Mini-Biz Health-Care Wishes and Woes, Pt.5 – What’s the best proposed solution?

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In response to the political scene, the respondents were asked what they thought should be the preferred health insurance/care system for our country, in it’s quest for the best reform. Concerning the health insurance/care options currently being proposed by our presidential nominees, “there was no clear consensus,” responded Ms. Darien, executive director of NASE, the group who conducted the study. There were, however, two parallel veins having some commonality and some divergence. The third preference was to basically, keep the health insurance/care system that we already have. The breakdown was:

•  25% Chose a universal health-care system, run by the government, where every American would be mandated to pay for some type of coverage.
•  24.5% Chose a universal health-care system completely paid for by taxes.
•  22.9% Chose to keep the current health-care system we already have.
•  30% Either responded that they didn’t know or that they didn’t like any of the choices given ("none of the above.") This is the largest group, but also the most scattered.

Notice how close these first three percentages are. When considering margin for error and other things, Ms. Darien regards this as, pretty-much, a three-way tie. But, when considering the commonality between the first two, this could favor a 49.5% response for some type of a ‘universal health-care system’. This would be a significant portion. The large disparate percentage of the last group doesn’t offer much cohesiveness toward a forward plan, but does indicate some dissatisfaction to the health insurance/care solutions being offered so far.

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