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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (259783)	5/30/2002 5:33:07 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 769670

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To: haqihana who wrote (259783)	5/31/2002 2:17:53 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Amen to the "time, not money" for charity. My pop was a small-town doc and did his charity at 2am fixing up the rancher's grandmother's sclerotic leg, and coming home with a few chickens that the rancher insisted he take. It's certainly gotten to be an amazing scam, my brother is also a doc, and we calculated the non-medical costs that went into his treatment of the elderly. They were 80%, when you include the insurance, non-generic drugs, and unnecessary hospital costs. It's a medical-industrial complex of a trillion-plus per year, just like military-industrial complex, creating its own self-protecting coocoon of laws and customs that need to be broken down and bypassed. One way is to skip insurance, as another buddy of mine, who tells his patients up-front, he saves $100k per year, has more time for patients, and he's less likely to be sued, since he doesn't have a multimillion dollar insurance policy to be coerced into paying off. As far as true democracy, it only needs to be an accountable Republic, IMO. If anyone of us can dial up the contributions, and receipts for any public company, politician, and government department in any portion of the country, you'll see changes, fast. If everyone can easily follow the money, we can soon talk about what we're actually getting for our 100 days per year of indentured servitude. As far as strong people, you're right, frightened, tv-addled, media-manipulated people won't revolt. But those working hard to make a good life will be damned if they let the government get away with too much, for too long, and that, it seems to me, is where we're headed this year or next. The result will be accountability and investigations, financial and intelligence, with no guarantees who the fingers point to.