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To: LindyBill who wrote (14964)	11/3/2003 11:57:40 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) of 793624

It's a vicious spiral. Not only are costs going up, the cost increases cause further bureaucratic blizzards, legal quagmires, pharmaceutical and insurance company opportunities. Each one bumps the cost of the other. As long as the taxpayer/patient is willing to fork over more of his income, costs will continue to increase. There is a vicious monopoly in medicine that can't be broken without gov't intervention, one of the few places I'm in favor of significant gov't involvement to create full disclosure. The first to notice this was a signer to the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, who said the following shocking statement: "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom." Benjamin Rush, MD., a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington resultsproject.net

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