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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (59670)	11/5/2000 1:23:17 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You don't help people by destroying the best health care system in the world. Socialized medicine over time will destroy are job creating, life saving, fantastic health care system. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world if my child was severely injured, or needed treatment for a killer plague. Sure, we need to do more to help lower the cost. Like pass much needed TORT reform, which Democrats (such as Whopper Al) refuse because they are paid off by the trial lawyer lobby.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (59670)	11/5/2000 1:29:24 PM
From: kvkkc1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I'm afraid you just can't grasp reality. Bush doesn't move toward socialized medicine. Insurance, Pharmaceutical companies, and HMO's, which 87.5% of Americans have and use, have provided the US with the greatest medical advances in history. Why move away from that so the poor have to wait in lines for medical care while the wealthy go to the head of the line like the Soviet Union citizens had to do for food? The poor in our country have access to medical coverage via Medicaid. Granted it might not be the greatest, but it is something. Would you prefer Medicaid to your present corporate provided insurance? I highly doubt it. Those that choose to forgo health insurance do so mostly by choice. They feel their $ are spent better elsewhere. I for one, don't care to pay for health care or prescription drugs for multi-millionaires or other similar wealthy types who are over 65. Maybe you see no problem with that. I wonder if the Medicaid recipients are counted in the uninsured? If they are, then the high number is just another gov't fostered lie.knc

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (59670)	11/5/2000 4:21:57 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

flapjack, Don't get me wrong. I am not agreeing with you per se, but agree that there must be changes in the medical profession in this country. I have been a witness, first hand, of the greed of doctors, ambulance services, and nursing facilities, in their defrauding the Medicare program out of millions, if not billions, of dollars. I do not like anything socialized, but these people should be investigated, fined, and put in jail for the felony theft they are committing. I have also seen a major stumbling block to solving this problem that could save the country most of this money. I have complained to Medicare investigation offices on several occasions where bills for my mother's care have been ridiculously padded, and fabricated. These "so called" medicare police just don't give a damn. They are unionized, civil servants, that could care less how much money is being stolen on their watch, as long as they get their own paycheck. I have heard one say; "What the hell! It's all government money anyway!!" Therein lies the problem. It is not "government" money. That money that is being stolen by the medical profession belongs to the taxpayers of America, and it is being flushed down the toilet. ~H~