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The Real Problem of Covering the ‘Uninsured’, Pt.8 – A more clear picture emerges.

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Perot principle behavior may be significant here because is it shown that this small percentage of people account for the lion’s share of health care expense and are simply going without expensive health care because of no health insurance. Mr. McCain hasn’t given any ‘meaningful’ details on the fate of these people. Even if Mr. McCain had provided us with 10 times the amount of the scant details he has given us on his health insurance/care, it still would not be enough to “model the impact” these drastic changes will produce. Many factors could not be ‘substance-based’ because the new parameters being implemented have never before been tested by any nation in history. There is no similar health insurance/care model anywhere, scaled-down or otherwise.

Switching to the subject of Mr. Obama’s health insurance/care plan, we diverge to a very different direction. Here, at least, we have much greater detail. We also have a reliable scaled-down model, moving into its third successful year of maturity. Although not perfect, the testing ground of the Massachusetts Commonwealth health insurance/care Model has already overcome many of the sharpest criticisms of doom with flying colors. Some challenges still remain, however. Detractors and ‘barn-burners’ are quick to point these out, but slow to mention that these challenges were anticipated from the beginning but could not be properly addressed until initial parameters had stabilized. Some of those parameters would settle at a greater savings than was anticipated; while others would settle at a greater expense. Sometimes effects that looked bad were actually good. Sometimes, the converse was true.

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