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To: Alighieri who wrote (180682)	1/16/2004 9:18:12 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572637

Al, re: There is no logic in your statement. If taxes are cut, more people will be able to afford insurance. The folks who can't afford 10K/year health insurance will pay with it with $200 tax cuts they get. This statement takes the prize for absurdity. Did I say everyone will be afford it? I said more people will be able to afford it (insurance). Your 2 statements show that you prefer to operate on emotional level rather than rational, logical level. Not to worry, you are in majority. Or is it ideology rather than emotions? I am not sure now. Insurance is another source of the problem. It removes the transaction of the patient signing check and suffering financial consequences of writing the check (less money in his checking account. This would enforce some discipline, as people would shop around as much as practical, just as they shop around for a vacuum cleaner. Talk to the me about the recent medicare bill that was bribed into passage, in which it is not kosher to negotiate for better prescription drug prices. Good example. Another problem that I see is that on the net bases drugs are a net minus as far as the health of the population is concerned. More drugs, more side effects, more deaths from misaplication, incorrect doses etc, and further he medical science is diverted into hiding symptoms, rather than looking for ways to prevent people from getting sick in the first place. The whole point of drugs is to make an unnatural, patentable substance that hides some symptoms. Wouldn't I be excited to go have my cancer treated by a used chevy class medical coverage plan? Hardly any person driving a Used Chevy or Ford Escort is excited about it, and would rather drive Mercedes. This country is well on the way to bankrupting itself for not recognizing a simple fact that not everyone will ever be able to afford Mercedes, and the fact that Mercedes will always come out with new and more expensive models that will be there to soak up ever more money. Is it worth extending 80 year old's life by 1 month for $100,000? If you asked me, my answer would be: for your $100,000, definitely. For my $100,000, I would rather give it to my kids. The problem with our medical system is that money being spent is always somebody else's. So there is no incentive to ration, to be economical, to thing of the next generations. Joe