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To: Ilaine who wrote (83013)	6/28/2000 11:11:00 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If we make them carry liability insurance on their cars, why can't we make them carry health insurance? CB, I hope you don't mind my popping in here. I've seen you make this point a couple of times and I have a question. We're required to carry liability insurance in case we injure someone else. We're not required to carry collision or comprehensive. If we want to pay to fix our cars out of our own pockets, that's our business. If we can't afford to fix our cars, that's our business, too. In your scenario, would Bill Gates have to carry health insurance? [Disclosure--I recently switched to a doctor who doesn't accept insurance. It's wonderful. When I go, I have the office to myself and she and I talk until we both run out of agenda items. I hand over plastic on the way out. What a concept!] Karen

To: Ilaine who wrote (83013)	6/28/2000 12:57:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Ms. Blue, do you know what health insurance costs? Around here, you can get major medical, which doesn't pay for much of anything unless you end up in the hospital with 4-5 figure bills, for $1k/$2k a year, but if you want the kind of coverage that will actually pay for clinic visits and minor emergencies that don't require hospitalization, suddenly you're looking at $5-7k a year. The system is a mess. My understanding is the U.S. is the only 1st world country without some kind of national health plan, except maybe South Africa. There's always a gigantic lobbying contingent to say that it's worse elsewhere, but aggregate health statistics tell quite a different story. We spend the most, though. Cheers, Dan.