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To: Gulo who wrote (59)	10/29/2000 11:01:34 AM
From: Lino...	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 37182

That said, I can live with a publicly funded health care system, at least for the 'needy.' I do not completely buy into the universality philosophy, but if others insist on it, I can abide by it. Unfortunately, those that are the most vocal about the sacred cow "universal" health care don't want to talk about the other side of the coin, that being that it can be universally bad. The idea that throwing more money at the system is the guarenteed cure is pure rubbish. Privatize some of the medical services and let those that can afford them buy them.....this would lighten the current load on the public health care system and, in effect, create a potentially faster and better service for the needy. My Dad waited over 4 months on a waiting list for kemo for prostrate cancer......I doubt the cancer waited. Had I been allowed to purchase the treatment he needed, you can bet I would have done everything in my power to do just that. But, for the sake of universality, to deny someone a service that could extend or improve the quality of their life is the absolute socialist insult. Socialized systems of any sort create wealth for the "providers" .......the worst kind of wealth, the legislated kind with no incentive for excellence. I doubt that Gerpol finds money distastefull....but competition, efficiency, productivity, capitalism,... well that's another story.