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To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (256360)5/17/2002 7:29:36 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
Re: I've thought for years that the best case scenario for the middle class is either to drop dead suddently ... or to expect to spend their entire net worthh on last year or few of life.

You aren't the one who is cynical. It's the medical extortionists who are. Basically, if you get sick in America, you can count of the medical community to stick a financial knife in your back. Following the basic premise of so-called "free market" capitalists. Never give a sucker an even chance. The cost of health care in this country is obscene. The transfer of wealth completely unseemly.

Reminding me of the joke going round Havana. A woman tells her mother she's had to break off her engagement when she found out her fiance was lying being a doorman at a "dollar" hotel. Turned out he was actually a neurosurgeon, and thus had no good prospects....

-R.



To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (256360)5/20/2002 10:09:08 AM
From: goldworldnet  Respond to of 769667
 
Wow, we agree. The vast majority of health care is spent in the last 6 months of life. The government already subsidizes this and many believe the government should spend even more. When my time comes, I'll be damned if I will rob my family and give a hospital everything I have in the world for a few extra months of pain and misery.

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