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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (168)	4/1/2007 3:30:05 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 1564

With liberty and justice for some !! It would be nice if that were avoidable, but I see no way of avoiding it. Do you? In a capitalist system, some either have tremendous amounts of money or extremely good health insurance or their own doc (the Prexy, anyone?). The equalizer is, in terms of docs, reputation != competence. In socialism or Communism, the politically powerful get better care. In the old USSR, they had their own private health care system ivan Ivanovich had no access to. Some of the aches and pains we all have come from paying our healthcare costs. The aches and pains of NOT paying them can be much worse. And there is no free ride. In socialism or communism, you pay through taxes, hidden and open. In a capitalist system, your employer commonly pays all or part of the cost- -but THAT is money that would show up in your paycheck were it not for that insurance cost. You're going to pay, one way or another. Some states are now experimenting with various forms of socialized healthcare so we need to watch and see how they workout. Like this one. Ahnie has seen my vote for the last time. I didn't vote for him to bring the nanny state. My husband and I pay over a thousand dollars a month for healthcare so if my taxes were increased by several hundred a month we'd still be ahead of the game. If you're paying $1000 a month, how can you possibly believe they can only go up a few hundred and provide the same service??? The quality of the healthcare would certainly be an issue to consider. See above. But that is a consideration in the present system too. Finding a good dedicated doc who will PAT ATTENTION to the peculiarities of your condition is a battle all by itself. In an HMO. you've got to be prepared to be the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. If we all could get good healthcare at a reasonable cost it would benefit everyone. How is that possible? What's "good"? Generic penicillin that every bug on the planet has seen and is resistant to? Or a brand new one it has never seen but kills the infection in a matter of days but costs thousands because of the development costs? A cheap conventional X-ray? Or a PET or radiothallium scan or gadolinium contrast-enhanced three-dimensional MRA in the thousands? Everyone wants the the best and latest for their condition. Ever notice how the best and latest in electronics is also the most expensive? The same is true in medicine. CAT and MRI scans are now a fraction of the costs they were when originally introduced. But new technology with the same high price tag is here. You can't win.

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