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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (199070)4/30/2009 1:41:15 PM
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I think that is a typical smokescreen approach -- trying to hide the absurdity of the tens of millions of Americans who have no insurance and the cruelty of what that does to them and our economy. The 'system' we have now is morally bankrupt and will soon make us economically bankrupt. Would you watch your parents die for lack of care if they have no insurance? This is only an issue if you are a human being -- and it touches every age group both directly and indirectly.

The fact is that millions of American children need health care and can only get it by virtue of their parent's willingness to sit in a hospital emergency room for 12 hours to have their children looked at by a doctor. Go to any inner city hospital and you will see it staring you in the face -- crowds of people with no other place to turn, receiving care that is so absurdly expensive and ineffective, yet it is care of last resort.

It is absurd that health care is not as basic as any other public service such as the fire department or the police department in the USA. Everyone -- from prenatal care to death by old age -- everyone is at risk and everyone pays one way or another. We only fool ourselves when we pretend that the 'system' we have now is cost effective, fair or supportive of good health. It is none of these. It is unfathomably wasteful and ineffective and most often cruel to those who are least able to take care of themselves -- the very young, the very old, the unemployed and the very sick whatever their age.
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