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To: Bill who wrote (88)	11/6/2002 7:33:37 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 7936

another little grub

To: Bill who wrote (88)	11/6/2002 9:04:13 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 7936

It's amusing that Dr. Benjamin Rush was experiencing similar issues in medicine in 1776... His bio notes that Rush was fired after he complained to Washington about medical services. After helping to put together the Pennsylvania state constitution, Rush decided he would never engage in politics again ! LOL! The estimate for US healthcare cost is $1.4 trillion in 2003. If only 1/4 goes to the docs and nurses, where does the rest go? Like government, the education system, and other large bureacracies, unless there is public accountability for costs, administrative costs grow unchecked until they exceed the good or service being administered. National defense would be subject to even greater fraud and abuse if privatized. We would have entrepreneurial generals scaring the crap out of citizens for profit. Similarly, medical care is another life and death service subject to the same abuse. Altho' it is 4X larger than the Pentagon, the solution to effective healthcare is the same -- transparency and full disclosure of performance data and expenditures in realtime.