Originally Posted By: L. Brown
Question on universal health care in the United States: Do I get to keep the excellent coverage I have now, both as a fringe benefit of my wife's job and my status as retired military? Or do I got thrown into the same pot with everyone else? Any chance I can "opt out" if I wish to do so? I think that's the problem many Americans are going to have with universal health care if it's some sort of a universal mandate: Why should I trade what I have now, and like, for something that might not be as good?


In virtually every universal health care system today, individual citizens can enhance their coverage by buying private insurance at their own expense. The universal health care proposals by US policitians all allow those with better coverage to keep it. The notion of being forced into inferior coverage is a product of fear-mongering by the health care industry.

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