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SixDegrees5/13/2009 7:50:13 am PDT

re: #590 Kosh’s Shadow

They’ll drop coverage for most workers, and keep it for the execs. They won’t want to be in the same lines as the rest of us.

And it is hard to argue with an insurance company now, but possible; arguing with the government will be much harder.
By the time you get through the bureaucracy, you’ll be dead.

Sure. Canada figured this out a long time ago - it’s much, much cheaper to pay out death benefits than it is to treat the sick, especially the chronically ill.