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    1. This included healthinsurance. Not to be outdone, in that same year, the National Convention of InsuranceCommissioners developed its first model of state law to regulate health insurance. A few yearslater, in 1915, the American Association for Labor Legislation drafted a bill to require healthinsurance. The United States entered World War I soon after, and the bill was not enacted

      would we be in a more socialized medicine state had it not been for World War 1? If this bill was enacted, would it have changed health care policy today?

    2. The Biden Administration took action to lower the cost of healthcare, and increase enrollmentusing the healthcare marketplac

      This statement dates this article for me. I know that it was written later because Trump has dismatled this system.

    3. d stage renal disease to qualify for Medicare coverag

      Why is end stage renal care so specifically included on this list? is it not a long-term disability? why is it different?

    1. hrough which the elderly could buy their own health care. “Whenelderly individuals purchase health care with their [own]...funds,” they argued inclassic moral hazard style, “they are spending their own money, rather than the‘government’s money’...Thus the elderly will have an incentive to spend theirhealth-care dollars wisely.

      Here, I think about all those years that the elderly spent paying into social security. Is this statement making an assumption that those would be okay with all the sudden having to use an HSA? Would they get money automatically added to it? I also think that this statement has a notion that people recklessly spend on health care.

    2. This is the crux of the neoliberal ideology on health care. Hayek doesn’tmerely dispute the basis of the NHS or other universal systems on grounds ofefficiency, organization, cost, or output; rather, he disputes the very notion thatthere could exist anything like a universal desire—much less a “right”—to anysocial good, including health c

      I disagree with this claim. I think that society as a whole cannot function if there is no health care for all. I think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. That bottom necessary layer includes a lot of things that health care provides us.

    1. Many analysts believe these programs are unsuitable for low-income and middle-income individualsand families because they have to pay for everything up to the deductible.

      The author is taking for granted high deductible plans. Some plans now have deductibles that are $10k. How are low income and middle income families supposed to pay for this?

    2. The question becomes how and why the United States has chosen to have a health care system that isfundamentally different than those in other countries and one that spends much more on health care thanany other country, yet both objectively and subjectively is rated so unfavorably

      Is socialized medicine the answer? Would we have better satisfaction if we were in socialized medicine? Do people have favorable thoughts about socialized medicine? I am curious if this is a question that we can really answer in this article.