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To: bentway who wrote (509769)	12/14/2003 11:14:40 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

because insurance runs on a profit and they care about costs. Government doesn't do as good a job. Each party simply adds jobs to the payroll...Repub..Dems...if the Green party got in they would have Directors for Crystal Care Development

To: bentway who wrote (509769)	12/14/2003 11:19:11 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

re: The most basic principle of insurance is the larger the pool, the less the risk. but do you really understand what you write? If you do then explain how would that affect overall cost of universal coverage

To: bentway who wrote (509769)	12/14/2003 11:37:30 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 769667

Interesting point. I guess they figure more money can be made from targeted pools, those already polled, rather than wider pools of people. It's sort of like knowing only 50 percent are going to vote so all you've got to do is divide this segment into two groups (DEMS/GOPS), then aim all of that obscene and very inside campaign money to chase after that tiny sliver of fencesitting votes who don't fit into either of the two groups. It's easy to get a similar result this way. Oftentimes, so far as how the money is organized, it doesn't matter whether it's a DEM or a REP who gets elected. Indeed, the drug war may be a public health failure, a tremendous waste of money and a high value of heartbreak, but it sure helps keeping a large chunk of the other 50 percent from voting. Disenfranchisement always works. Yup. Limit the pool and thereby control it better. Hey, ain't that the way it is? Come on you rightwingers--admit this--lol!