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To: Alighieri who wrote (159982)	2/3/2003 10:44:16 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1583713

What I said is that the country spends $400b on defense but does not have a public health care system. Every person over the age of 65 in the United States has, for the most part, free healthcare. In addition, families who are poor are provided excellent healthcare in the form of Medicaid in every state. In my state, Medicaid pays for extensive prenatal care for pregnant women (including EPSDT screening) and children receive free annual well-child visits. I'm really not sure what you're complaining about. While 20% of the population under the age of 65 lack health insurance, they are still largely able to obtain free medical care thorough county hospitals and free public facilities and health programs. VERY FEW Americans are denied healthcare. And while a small number may not receive the finest healthcare America has to offer, the vast majority do. Even the uninsured/underinsured, for the most part, receive better medical care than available in most countries. While physicians and county facilities bear the brunt of these costs, they are passed on to other patients who are more able to afford them. In 12 years of serving exclusively physicians, the only physicians I have seen go broke were in the last year from the exhoribitant malpractice premiums caused by massive jury awards because the trial lawyers are running rampant. Bottom line -- the suggestion that American's don't have a "healthcare" system is but one more liberal lie, designed to attempt to socialize another major aspect of our lives. I pay $1,000 a month for medical insurance and it is a great bargain -- every time I make a payment I'm helping some less fortunate person receive free medical care.

To: Alighieri who wrote (159982)	2/4/2003 6:42:43 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583713

Al RE...What I said is that the country spends $400b on defense but does not have a public health care system. Maybe that is what you meant to say, but you didn't include public in your sentence. The US has the best health care system in the world, its just not public. Would it be the best if it was public; and could we afford it, considering how the lawyers have turned good intentions into mush in the past.