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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (7158)	12/5/2002 3:39:55 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 306849

A Single-Payer system is an extreme solution to dishonest medical pricing which is protected from the free market. But it may be the only cure I think so. In the old days before the profitable lobbyist obfuscation, my pop was a small town doc who would treat people gratis from time to time, never turned anyone down, and for some reason it all worked out. Then in the 70's there began to be predatory lawyers, then massive awards, then massive insurance costs, and the upward spiral of opportunism, with massive lobbying to keep it going. A single-payer plan may be impossible until another Great Depression, due to the administration and Congress' willingness to ignore the citizenry. But it works in the countries where it's tried, and they can still get the multi-million dollar MRI scans, if they want. An example of the mindset is PA where the new Demo governor is addressing the fleeing docs by subsidizing the insurance with state funds! Gee, that's great, now we have even more taxpayer subsidy of the insur/attny/pharma. There is no citizen lobby in Washington, so we, basically, don't exist. The only benefit 68% of us Americans get from government is a slight reduction in federal taxes if we own real estate -- for some reason that's one citizen program that is still on the books <vbg>