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To: i-node who wrote (160055)	2/5/2003 10:18:01 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582684

Before you call me "ignorant" I suggest you get yourself informed on the subject at hand. kff.org Al

To: i-node who wrote (160055)	2/5/2003 3:41:36 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582684

While some people are uninsured (between 20 and 40M, probably 30M is a good guess), that is less than one in 10 or 15 Americans who are uninsured. These people get perfectly good medical care at county facilities -- BETTER than any European country you can name. In 2001, the numbers of Americans without health insurance was 41 million and growing.....up 1.4 million in just one year. The reasons are three fold.....increasing unemployment, small businesses no longer can afford it, and employees are giving up on insurance at companies where employers pass on part of the cost to their employees.....the employees can't afford the passed down costs. None are very comforting trends. There is a growing crisis in health insurance in this country that needs to be addressed asap. More and more people are without it. The costs are going up through the roof with no end in sight. The quality of medical care is deteriorating. With many diseases, American MDs are lagging behind their counterparts in Europe and Australia. American MDs are fearful of lawsuits and are less inclined to implement procedures that smack of any kind of aggressiveness. I can't address the qualitative differences between European and American health plans but there is one major difference that I do know of, most European countries provide full health care for all of their citizens. And whether you're a liberal or a conservative, that's an important distinction. cbpp.org ted