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To: Lane3 who wrote (54642)	7/16/2004 2:05:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 793917

The most fundamental problem with any analysis of health care proposals is the faulty notion that the objective is health insurance rather than health care. If you start your analysis in the wrong place, there is no recovery. Actually, it is health insurance that is the issue. Improving health care is a different issue and definitely one that needs to be addressed. But, given our system and the large role insurance plays in our lives--life insurance, home insurance, mortgage insurance, health insurance, etc.--health insurance is the way we address the imponderables of the costs of serious illness. And our present structure leaves a great many folk very vulnerable on this score. As for rolling back the tax cuts on those with incomes over $200,000, in my view that should only be the start. Stop the cuts on inheritance taxes as well and make them more reasonable. There are simply too many issues, of which health insurance is only one, that need to be addressed, that can't be addressed with the Bush tax cuts which exacerbate the growing income inequalities.

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