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Major Nikon

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2. I believe health care should be financed the way the French do it

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Original post)

Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:28 PM

Sep 2013

If you work, you pay for health insurance. It's deducted from your pay just like SS and IIRC the premiums are based on your income, not your health care liability. That is path for universal coverage. Then if you want a higher level coverage than what the basic government plan provides, you buy a supplemental policy pretty much the same way Medicare works here.

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Time: "Women should pay more for health care" [View all] lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 OP

Having spent most of my working life as an insurance underwriter and... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #1

Is 34% more than men a small difference? YMMV. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #3

That number includes maternity... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #6

Um, women do not get themselves pregnant. This is not a women's issue. smirkymonkey Nov 2013 #11

Who said it's a woman's issue? You seem to be leading up to saying... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #12

I believe health care should be financed the way the French do it Major Nikon Sep 2013 #2

Fully agree. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #4

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2013 #15

The entire point of health insurance -lost on many, it seems- is that the healthy pay for the sick. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #5

That's the way it works in fire insurance, but... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #7

did you read the Time article on Health Care about, I dunno, 6 months ago? Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #8

Paywall! Later I'll get around to figuring out... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #9

Yeah, I seem to remember seeing a non-walled version at some point, but they may have pulled it. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #10

Doctor_J: No one should pay anything for health care Doctor_J Nov 2013 #13

No I don't think Joel thakkar Dec 2013 #14