From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu
On 2012-09-20, conklin wrote:
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> "Herman Rubin" wrote in message
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>> On 2012-09-20, conklin wrote:
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>>> "Herman Rubin" wrote in message
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>>>> On 2012-09-18, conklin wrote:
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>>>>> "Bert" wrote in message
>>>>> news:XnsA0D27FF66DDA3VeebleFetzer@216.250.188.141...
>>>>>> In news:ws21-745CC7.13260718092012@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net Bill
>>>>>> Steele wrote:
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> Once again, Herman, your last statement is disproven by the other
> industrialized democracies in the world as a whole. They do have adequate
> health coverage for all, and better results too, at half the price. Sorry
> facts always get in our way. (By the way, facts are not subject to
> statistics. When you have 100% of a population, you just have facts, not a
> sample).
I think you will find that these countries have private care outside
their socialized system.
People who need little medical care will accept coverage of what
they need as "adequate", but it does not solve the problem. Real
insurance would be for the rare but costly events.
Providing coverage which cannot be delivered, or which can only be
delivered at exhorbitantly high prices, will not occur.
Here is a proposal which will be opposed by the insurance companies:
do not allow the collusion of reducing rates by insurance companies.
This is not allowed in most of business, except for small discounts.
It also introduces problems, which is why some providers will not
join the insurance companies "preferred groups".
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are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558
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