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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (199493)5/1/2009 3:13:12 PM
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I'll end my discussion here with this comment -- we, as a nation, are going to go bankrupt if we keep the healthcare 'system' we have now. We will all go down with the ship -- I won't waste my time debating who has a better chair on the deck. The ship dos not have to sink -- but the changes that are needed will require some form of universal coverage.

Tell somebody who is 30 years old whose wife is tragically ill that we have a good system -- he gets to watch her die while he has mindless arguments with an insurance company over the bills and slowly slips into bankruptcy -- and of course that assumes no other tragedy has befallen him like losing his job.

Until it sinks in real deep how bad the current state of affairs really is for all concerned, there is no real conversation -- just ideological posturing. Nobody is immune from medical bankruptcy or medical neglect no matter how old or young, no matter how careful or careless, no matter how well off you think you are or not -- we are all playing Russian Roulette with healthcare insurance by living in the good old US of A.

The irony of it all is that our Russian Roulette health care system costs us twice what a good health care system would cost us -- if only we had one.
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