INFORMEDdebate
YES
from members:
William von Segen
Beaverton, OR
The government has
the responsibility
to help ensure the
health and well-being of its citizens.
Carole Schumacher
Prospect Heights, IL
A private health
sector would take advantage of and keep
the cost too high for
a citizen to afford.
ARTVILLE
Should government
Pascale Brown
Boca Raton, FL
The government
should regulate private
insurers who have
gone way off the chart
when it comes to
health-care premiums.
play a role in managing
health insurance?
NO
from members:
Rising costs in health care, coupled with increasing numbers
of Americans with no health insurance, have many people agreeing
that we need to guarantee basic health insurance to all of our citizens.
Many people also agree that employer-based health insurance is a drag
on the economy, tying workers to jobs they would otherwise leave and
harming the country’s trade competitiveness by adding to the cost of
doing business.
Some have suggested that the best way to guarantee such “universal”
health insurance coverage is for the federal government to manage the
plan. Others argue that the private sector could do the best job of
improving efficiency in the system and keeping costs manageable.
What do you think?
Terry Rudd
Arvada, CO
It wouldn’t be cost
effective. Taxes
would have to go up.
To get the coverage
most of us have we’d
have to carry a supplement.
Anthony Galetta
Nashua, NH
Other countries have
government health-care systems that don’t
measure up to the
current U.S. system.
Find out more about this topic on the Web:
• www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4753
• www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php
• www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/2005/RAND_CP484.1.pdf
John Arbogast
Incline Village, NV
The government has
enough problems as
it is.
