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To: Neeka who wrote (609242)	8/24/2004 4:27:30 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

No job? Blame benefits [KLP Note: Couldn't believe I saw this today in Seattle's really left of center paper!!!] SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD seattlepi.nwsource.com Monday, August 23, 2004 Strong evidence that health insurance costs are slowing the national jobs recovery offers yet another reason to re-examine the policy of tethering health care coverage to employment. The New York Times reports that businesses say the cost of providing medical insurance to employees -- at an average of $3,000 a year per worker -- is a deterrent to hiring more employees. The cost of health care benefits is rising at a rate more than three times that of wages and salaries. In the current U.S. system, in which government programs cover the elderly and the very poor, the employer is the source of health care coverage. Unemployment, conversely, or part-time employment or self-employment, often means no coverage. What coverage the market offers to individuals is often well beyond their means. And the rest of us pay for others' lack of coverage. Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane last week announced layoffs, a cut necessary to "compensate for the continued reduction in state and federal reimbursement for hospital services and the rapid growth in the number of uninsured patients." If health care coverage costs continue to show an obvious drag on job creation, it may force a long-overdue debate on the very nature of health care. Is it an entitlement or a perk? Should we all be covered? Shouldn't we all pay? It's a debate we've been reluctant to have, but a clear link to economic stability may make it one we can no longer afford to avoid.

To: Neeka who wrote (609242)	8/24/2004 4:34:29 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 769670

Wait till the left wakes up and finds that ALL means ALL...527's... $154,000 (now $450,000) for the SBVFT ads, and over $60,000,000 and counting for the Soros, Lewis and Bing sponsored left wing 527's. Also, when the amount of air time given all the 25 or so Bash-Bush books is counted, and the air time for Michael the Large interviews given, and all the 527 ads air time counted.... and then compare the SBVFT ads.... MOST interesting numbers will come out. LOL!

To: Neeka who wrote (609242)	8/24/2004 6:28:20 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I find it INCREDIBLE that these Democrapics have the GALL to try to force out the free speech of heroes like the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth yet on the other hand have spent I understand something like 300 million $$ by their 527's lead by the likes of George Soros and Michael Moore, calling OUR PRESIDENT every sort of name and making every sort of accusation. Honest to God, what is the average American thinking? I mean it just makes my blood boil yet I dont hear SCREAMING from Middle America. jdn