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<![CDATA[Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk]]>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-swenson/like-on-wall-street-curre_b_128710.html
The American Medical Association's proposed health care reform goes by the name Voice for the Uninsured and advocates government-subsidized purchase of private insurance. It sounds remarkably like the Massachusetts plan that mandates purchase of private insurance, reimbursed by government in the form of subsidies, vouchers or tax credits. Many "affordable" plans these days are "minimum benefit plans" -- sufficient until accident or sickness occur. A tax penalty is imposed for failure to purchase private insurance.
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