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...advantages of going to school in an area so close to the North Pole is the nearness of Canada. A few hours of driving can take you out of the country all together and into the land of Quebee separatists, great hockey teams and single-payer medicine. Even Crimson editors are not immune to the lure, as these four found out earlier this summer...
...SINGLE PAYER...
...bill was voted out of the House Education and Labor committee "without recommendation" but will probably come to a vote on the floor anyway. The single-payer plan would make the Federal Government the nation's health- insurance manager. According to the Congressional Budget Office, its cost- containment prospects are better than that of all other plans. It would also require substantial increses in taxes on both individualas and corporations, although proponents argue that these expenses will be offset by the savings people will realize by no longer having to pay premiums to insurance companies...
...other end of the spectrum is a bill proposed by House Democrat Jim McDermott of Washington. Modeled on the single-payer Canadian system, it puts the government in charge of allocating health-care resources, financed by substantial taxes. McDermott's plan won 90 backers in the House last year, but polls show growing public skepticism of government-run medicine. A handful of other health-care bills that have been introduced may end up as amendments to the final legislation...
That leaves the large remainder of those between jobs, those working in part-time jobs and those who simply aren't working. The cost of helping them by means of either the Clinton plan or a single-payer system such as the Canadians use would be rationing of care and a general lowering of the level of quality, as talented and self-motivated potential doctors refuse to become paper pushers in white coats...