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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (6732)	8/5/2001 2:54:08 PM
From: jim black	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Perfect, Dolinar...PERFECT...Dark Satanic Kraut conspiracies...In fact I live in far greater dread of the US IRS and the FBI ( for incompetence) and a little concept exercised by the Drug Enforcement Agency called "drug abatement procedures" that would scare the piss out of most Europeans. Our limited experiment in universal health care in this county, called "Medicare" is a draconian, unmonitored, bureaucratic monster in which most physicians in this country live in utter dread, though they will often only admit it in private over a couple of beers. I withdrew from the program entirely and switched my practice to injury cases just to avoid them. Think I exaggerate? My insurance carrier in state of Washington issued us all a $US 40k, 10k deductible policy rider 4 years ago just to deal with medicare fraud charges. Our instructions were to call the insurance carrier AFTER we had contacted our lawyer, and before we responded to alleged fraud. After 25 years in medical practice I can say with innocence of a lamb and on the heads of my Rottweilers and Friesians I never new a physician who committed Medicare fraud...but maybe I am just naive. This mein sehr geehrter Freund is what I had in mind as I posed the rhetorical question...my own government and society, not yours. As an aside, were I a European, and as long as I did not have my retirement money riding on it, I would join with great glee the observations of Germany with its discipline and Italy with its (what is Jay's refernce to their type of government?..is it inefficient?) reconciling the ...again the right word?...adjustment to new currency. As for me I have no idea how it will come out. But it occurrs to me that uncertainty in such weighty matters as switching most of an entire subcontinent to a single currency might make for extremely interesting, perhaps financially dangerous times. Again please let me re-iterate less you misunderstand. I was some time ago a serious student of German literature and have followed with great interest the public reaction to that controversial book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners." As a member of a minority myself here in this country I observe very carefully what goes on here with much more personal interest than what goes on elsewhere in the world. In summing up a trite bit of OT on an otherwise uneventful Sunday here, I will again bow to the thread's indulgence in OT's on weekends. BTW, Lipizzaners are magnificent beasts, rarer here even more than Friesians. jim black