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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: John Koligman who wrote (11282)	11/14/2009 6:22:36 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 42652

"a person like Sue dies as a consequence of lack of health care coverage every 12 minutes in America" I know that messages like that are supposed to tug at our heart strings. If you think with your heart, or don't think at all, I guess it works. But the fact is that a pap test costs less than a monthly phone bill, any sexually active woman knows the risks, and Sue would have to be bone stupid or utterly irresponsible to not get one. Sue is not some innocent victim. While lack of insurance may have been a factor, it is hype to claim it killed her. The whole notion of saving lives or killing people is overdone. We all die. It's reasonable to claim that when some kid with cancer is cured, a life is saved. That kid will have a chance that he otherwise would not have had to grow up, have a career, raise a family. But if someone who has already had a life gets a treatment that adds a few more years before something else does him in, the notion of it having saved a life is just silly. Conversely, failing to get that life extension treatment can't be reasonably said to have killed him. I don't approve of hype. Folks should talk about extending or shortening life, not saving it.

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