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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (6789)	9/20/2001 8:50:44 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

As far as medical bills, recently I heard that a very large number are submitted incorrectly to insurance agencies. The percentage was very high, higher than you would expect, but I don't recall the exact number. I'm willing to bet [without knowing the odds] that the bills to insurance companies were higher than actual more than they were lower than actual. We can call them "billing errors" .... or we can call them "attempted theft". Point being though on the health care system. They are different. All have problems to one degree or another and you've sighted some of the Canadian problems. But in the Canadian system, there is 100% coverage at a significantly lower cost, higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality rates [which I looked up after your post on the twins]. So it isn't without any merit. I agree with you about teachers. I was one at one time. Even 30 years ago, we [the people] denigrated teaching, if you can't, then you teach. Today we keep on telling teachers that they are failing to teach children. We also preach on the other hand that children need to learn responsibility, yet society keeps on telling them they aren't responsible for learning, everyone else is responsible for teaching them. When I was a kid [isn't it great to use that sentence].... I was told that I needed to do better; I don't think I ever heard it was the teachers fault. jttmab