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To: Ilaine who wrote (83064)	6/28/2000 3:22:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Health care crisis? Or a rational decision by healthy people not to pay for health care coverage? For the vast majority of the uninsured, I would argue a rational decision. I've repeated your point for emphasis. One of the frustrating things about the debate on health care is the focus (particularly by politicians) on whether or not people have insurance rather than on whether they have access to health care. It's the access that counts; insurance may be the most common means or gaining access, but it is not the only one. This confusion of means and ends really distorts the discussion. Karen

To: Ilaine who wrote (83064)	6/29/2000 7:21:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You're a tender-hearted woman. I need advice. I have a friend who is mentally ill with extreme social anxiety. He has no money or income at all. His friends and relatives feed him and even pay his rent. He is too proud to apply for welfare because he would lose custody of his bastard child if the child welfare authorities found out about him. He is too timid to hold a job. Every once and a while he has a "heart attack." He collapses and is taken to the emergency room ($750 a trip). They tell him after tests that he is okay. That he should relax and not get so disturbed. He gives them a false name. Sometimes he calls a friend to take him to the emergency room. I hate to go. Because I always tell the truth, and it ends up costing me $750. Yet everytime he has a heart attack and asks me to help him I do. I've offered to buy him health insurance (but he's refused by carriers because of his preexisting conditions (he's not in Hawaii)). He's a pretty expensive friend but I care about him, but what should I do? Seriously. What should I do?