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Originally Posted by Azure
IMO, basic coverage should include your family doctor style health care, and beyond that, major surgeries. I'm not quite sure where you draw the line, but dental is private, and things like a massage therapist, chiropractor, etc, etc...are all private, and aided by public money.
I think people should be allowed to buy better coverage if they deem it necessary. Similar to how we can buy Blue Cross. Or, we can just choose to pay for our pills out of the pocket. Or risk paying for an ambulance ride outright.
The path we're on right now can't be sustained, so something needs to change.
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The problem with this is that while it decreases demand for the public system, it also decreases resources available to the public system (doctors, nurses etc.) and possibly also increases the per-unit costs of those resources.