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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (196164)	7/28/2004 9:27:07 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575604

Well, I just had a conversation with six or seven twenty-somethings who are not given health insurance by their employers, and they end up paying 1/3 or more of their take-home pay every month towards their own insurance. Then they need to get a real job. I pay my 24 year old daughter's health insurance, and it is $88/month. My 20 year old son's is $50. Unless these people have major preexisting problems, theirs will not be much more than this. The United States also has much more innovation than Canada does in semiconductors... does Canada socialize its semiconductor industry? We do a lot of things well. Exactly. We do things well because we don't turn them over to the government. You can't name one government activity that is "done well", besides national defense -- which is "done well" only because it can't be done at all otherwise. But is that the rule, or is that the exception? I service about five cancer clinics. Of those, I believe two have a policy of treating patients in adverse financial situations. They will work with the patient to get whatever insurance benefits they can get, then they handle it. These people are often out THOUSANDS of dollars for expensive chemo medications. On their nickels. And both clinics are run by mean old Republicans (one has a picture of W in his office!). The point is some do, some don't. Someone who really needs the treatment can probably get treated. If they can't get treated there, they can probably find a med school or clinical trial to participate in. There are tons of alternatives. None are as nice as having unlimited money, however.