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To: tejek who wrote (267)	11/11/2002 1:14:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

Were medical relief always perfectly beneficial and professionally provided, and/or were all patients honest, then there would be no need for the gov't/the courts to step in. So it isn't necessarily the gov't that's flawed but rather the people who make up the system. People will never be perfect. Doctors will make mistakes, patients will be dishonest, ect. But this has always been the case and we didn't use to have a legal lottery like we do today. What's your opinion about tort reform? As with other arguments on this subject, you treat gov't as if its this distinct and distant entity that rears its ugly head from ime to time, and acts as this unruly weight that forever finds ways to screw with us. That may well be true in a dictatorship, but in a democracy, the gov't is directly tied to and molded by the people it serves. 1 - The people screw each other through the government. 2 - Government officals have their own agendas. They are not purely a reflection of the popular will. 3 - If I'm getting screwed I don't really care if people voted for me to get screwed... Tim