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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (156345)	6/28/2001 4:34:43 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It would no doubt be cheaper for us all to have some sort of universal coverage which would allow all to get primary care before their problems developed into emergencies. Proof? And btw, I believe tobacco use ultimately causes more deaths than another cause. Proof? That may be true. Maybe not. It's certainly not a healthy habit.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (156345)	6/28/2001 5:44:48 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<As we know, ER care is very expensive and if the patient can't pay as many of them can't, we all pay. >> I knew a union guy who would get drunk every Saturday night and go to the ER every Sunday morning with a hangover. They would give him 2 Excedrin, send him home and bill his insurance $75. Saved him the $4 for buying a bottle of them.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (156345)	6/28/2001 9:26:25 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Mr. Pilch, do you know any person on this planet that is 100% absolutely healthy? Insurance companies are like gambling casinos....they simply rig the odds in their favor. You are exactly right. Health insurance companies are like gambling casinos. You merely bet that they are wrong and that you will get sick before they think you will. They think you will not get sick. If you are so convinced they rig the odds in their favor, then just as with any casino, you really don’t have to play. Most civilized nations, I think, require hospitals to give emergency care to someone who comes in needing help. As we know, ER care is very expensive and if the patient can't pay as many of them can't, we all pay. Not nearly as much as we would pay under some dang universal health system run by a friggin’ inefficient governmental monstrosity. It would no doubt be cheaper for us all to have some sort of universal coverage which would allow all to get primary care before their problems developed into emergencies. “No doubt,” you say. I doubt it because no civilized nation has ever pulled it off. History is simply not in your corner on this one, pal. It is in mine. A better way would be to allow us to only eat Brit food......I guarantee we wouldn't eat so much then....:-) Well, Brits don’t exactly have the most imaginative cuisine on the planet, I grant you. But no one understands how to serve a good tea better than the old world Brit.