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To: Impristine who wrote (25037)	9/24/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 108807

>Why corporate salaries continue to rise?< Well, MY corporate salary has lagged inflation for about 5 years now!! My $.02 re money vs. humanity: An HMO is a corporation. It has two mandates: 1) Provide a specified service/product 2) Stay in the black while doing that Money will always be Top Dog in this equation unless Gov't comes in and says "profit no longer matters; you're a public, subsidy-driven venture now. Here are your new rules." Things will go from bad to worse unless/until there are gov't guidelines, hard ones, on what is proper care. Whether it's handled privately (by HMOs) or publicly (by Medicare or an expanded federal program) it will be extravagantly expensive. Or downright Draconian, especially for chronic care. The only other way out is for insurance plans to cover the services in question. Non-HMO plans. I doubt a middle-class family could afford such a plan however. I'd guess about $10K/year in premium oughtta do it.

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