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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (7004)	10/5/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 769670

Hmmm a little slow there on the reply Bill... took you a full 5 minutes. You're like my cat when he sits on the porch, hoping the grey cat will come along and fight with him... sometimes he gets lucky... other times he has to retreat to the bedroom and go back to sleep

To: Bill who wrote (7004)	10/5/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Perhaps you should explain that clinics are widely available, but even when they are not, public hospitals are required to take in patients in their emergency rooms, and private hospitals are required to treat the worst cases, regardless of ability to pay. Also, most of the poor are covered by Medicaid. The persons who do not have health insurance are frequently those who elect not to, counting on their youth, or who are between jobs. I do not have the actual figure in front of me, but the number of people without insurance in any given month is about a tenth of the usually quoted figure, that is, between 3 and 4 million, because they are usually only without insurance briefly......