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To: JakeStraw who wrote (453399)	9/5/2003 4:10:02 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

you don't get it. The US taxpayer is not responsible to subsidize the western world's drug needs. The republicans CLAIM to be pro-free market. Canada has cheap drugs. Open the free market, problem solved. Tough love, you know? Some drug companies will go under, and some seniors won't get their 100K/year boutique drug. Darn, we have 40 million uninsured people in this nation.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (453399)	9/5/2003 4:11:29 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Jake, some of those Canadian companies enjoy a competitive advantage because they don't have to pay for their employees health insurance.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (453399)	9/5/2003 4:37:08 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

U.S. doctors call for Canadian-style health insurance Last Updated Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:06:25 WASHINGTON - A group of 8,000 American doctors has called for a national health insurance system, saying heath care in the U.S. is collapsing. 'How many patients have to die from lack of health insurance?' In a paper published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the physicians say the solution is to create a health insurance program administered by the government. The doctors are going up against two of the most powerful lobbies in the U.S.: the insurance and the pharmaceutical industries. One in seven Americans – 41 million people – have no health insurance, which Dr. Steffie Woolhandler of Harvard Medical School says is a disaster. "How bad does it have to get?," Woolhandler asked. "How many patients have to die from lack of health insurance? How many seniors have to choose between medicine and food before our legislators enact national health insurance?" Woolhandler is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, which calls for the U.S. to abandon a "mangled" and "collapsing" health care system based on private insurance. The group says only a government-run insurance plan can guarantee complete medical care and prescription drugs for every American. The group's plan calls for new taxes, but would end insurance premiums that cost many families more than $10,000 a year. Dr. Marcia Angell says the U.S. would avoid Canada's problems, such as long waits for medical services, by keeping its funding at its current level, nearly twice as much as Canada per person. "If (Canadians) were to put the same amount of money as we do into their systems, there would be no waits," said Angell. "For them, the problem is not the system; it's the money. For us, it's not the money; it's the system," she said. The insurance and the prescription drug industries helped defeat a less ambitious proposal in the early days of the administration of former U.S. president Bill Clinton. The authors of the paper, who represent a minority of American doctors, say they know they're going up against powerful lobbies, but they say there's no alternative

To: JakeStraw who wrote (453399)	9/5/2003 4:43:56 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 769670

Hope You Take The Time To Actually Research Before Posting. Yes,there are a small number of people who feel they don't want to or can't wait for specialized surgery.That is their perogative,and shows us all that no system is perfect. What you have been reading,very likely,is propaganda from those who wish to maintain the status quo. That would be those who have an interest in keeping your costs per capita high. Wanna guess who they are? But please,do some research Jake. Thanks. KC