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To: SilentZ who wrote (193497)	7/7/2004 12:12:48 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573850

Z, Expensive insurance, likely, but do you think it's really mostly because of the lawyers? The best example would be malpractice insurance for doctors, but not an example most people can relate to ... except for those in rural areas who can't figure out where all the private practice doctors went. Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (193497)	7/7/2004 7:47:30 PM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1573850

zofsilence, insurance administration is about 45% of the health care bill, according to an article (whose link I don't have.) Regards, Amy J

To: SilentZ who wrote (193497)	7/8/2004 5:10:17 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573850

Z, When Edwards pocketed a quarter of a billion between himself and his clients, where do you think the money came from? (Santa Klaus is not the right answer). It came from insurance premiums paid by companies still able to afford higher premiums, workers wanting to continue their insurance. Side effect is that some companies, some workers could no longer afford the insurance and now uninsured. Edwards has shifted them to "the other America". When you have just one trial lawyer siphoning a quarter of a billion from the productive economy, multiply it by all the trial lawyers, and we are talking destructive force in this country that hardly has an equal. Joe