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To: stribe30 who wrote (130960)	1/29/2001 1:58:12 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571207

Scott, the US and Canada have two different political cultures on health care and wont get resolved on here Just fyi, most people who are "health conscious" call it sick care not health care. It does nothing to keep you healthy, it only spends (wastes) huge amounts of money trying to make you feel better when you get sick (with some exceptions, where modern medicine actually does good things). Joe

To: stribe30 who wrote (130960)	1/29/2001 4:41:46 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1571207

something has to be done for those 20-30 million Americans without health care... Some people in that group either deliberately go without insurance because they could pay for massive health care payments if they occurred, or because they think nothing bad will happen to them and they would rather spend the money on other things. Others (still a pretty big number) truly can not afford any health insurance available to them. One way to decrease this number would be to decrease the cost of insurance. Tort reform would probably help as would less regulation imposing what has to be covered and how. Tim