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To: SilentZ who wrote (196173)	7/28/2004 10:16:24 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575737

>> You don't live in NY State. Mine is $250/mo, and that's pretty low. No, I don't -- one thing I'm glad of! >> Postal service You're kidding. >> interstate system... You don't live in Arkansas <g>.. Interstates are a wreck here. For the record, however, they began life as part of the defense budget. >> I think that because we NEED everyone to have adequate health care, we can. Nobody said every United States resident shouldn't receive adequate healthcare. But you're equating "healthcare" with "health insurance", which obviously are two totally different things. All but 14% have health insurance. A small fraction of the 14% have inadequate healthcare (after all, many of them are healthy anyway), and a small fraction of those have inadequate care because they can't afford it (most have it because they are unwilling to get it). When you boil it down, I'd wager we're dealing with something under 2% of the population. And many of those could get free medical care if they would bother to do so. True story: I was working in a clinic last month that sees mostly Medicaid patients. In the course of one day, this doctor saw NINE patients (out of maybe 24) who apparently qualified for Medicaid but would not bother to go get the card. I told my customer, "You can't see 'em. If they won't get off their ass and get the card, you can't see 'em. You're providing free services when the patient qualifies for Medicaid". It is sick. He didn't want to turn the patients away. But a physician cannot see 1/3 of his patient load for free and still pay his bills.