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Advocating personal responsibility in health-care reform: Bullshit!

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Providing health insurance under a single-payer system is the best way to spread the risk and minimize health care costs.

To conclude, if Mr. Mackey and others are right about the significance impact of personal responsibility, why do all other industrialized countries still provide health care coverage for all? In these countries, the government also tries to improve personal responsibility via policy measures and media campaigns. Nonetheless, all these governmentsstill believe in social justice (without being real socialist countries).

*This measure is used to reduce societal and user costs.(Note: I discussed this point in greater details in my original post.)

For those interested, Iwrote several posts relatedhealth care:

Let's compare Public and Private health care costs, eh

Health Care Comparison: Universal vs U.S - Part II

Health Care Comparison: Universal versus U.S.-Style Systems

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