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To: kvkkc1 who wrote (20661)	6/26/2001 4:49:06 PM
From: Hank Stamper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24042

OT: medical "the premium care that Americans receive, the envy of the world. " Now who in heck told you that? Clinton? Bush? The news media? (Some stock analyst? <g>) Your HMO? Your local hospital's advert on TV? (B'gawd, the advertising those hospitals do in their quest for bed census. If the advertising don't inflate the price of a aspirin than what does?) Ciao, Hank Stamper

To: kvkkc1 who wrote (20661)	6/26/2001 10:50:28 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 24042

OT re price controls in health care: Most Americans think they recieve "premium health care that is the envy of the world". This is a myth. The only way our system is "premium", is the costs. When you measure the results and outputs (as opposed to costs and inputs), we are nowhere near the top. Look at average life expectancy, infant mortality, % of children immunized by age 5, I could go on and on and on. I could bore you to death with statistics comparing results , and it all shows the same thing: foreigners do not envy our health care system, and there is no reason to.