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To: Father Terrence who wrote (50998)	8/12/1999 10:54:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (50998)	8/12/1999 11:08:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Each year it was a political football what increases would be made in social spending. Reagan let a bill go through that made the cost of living increases automatic each year figured by a formulas based on the interest rates and inflation. Both parties thought this would be good for them, not having to wrangle every year over it. It proved to be a disaster as social spending ballooned out of control because of the automatic increases. Reagan went along with it and signed it into law!

To: Father Terrence who wrote (50998)	8/13/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Apparently you are rich enough not to worry about health care, so in your eyes it's OK. Talk to the small businessmen across the country that go without insurance because the premiums are out of sight. There are millions of them. Many times the poor get far better health care for free than what the person without insurance pays cash for. Two months ago I paid over $2,000 in charges for spending 3 hours in an emergency room because I had some heart arrhythmias. I had an EKG, a blood test, a couple of interns listened to my heart, and I was supplied with an overnight monitor that looked 20 years old. No drugs, no treatment. If you think that our health care system isn't in piss poor shape, you are in dreamland. The primary goal is no longer to help the patient, but to see how much money to get from him. Note: This was in respponse to your post 50963. I couldn't get it to work from there. Del