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Politics : SI Member Vote 2004/SubjectMarks Only For Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (760)	9/1/2004 9:02:33 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 812

twofowler, Thanks. After I posed the question I did a google and found it right away. Google, gotta love it! The search engine, not the stock (necessarily). ggg Regarding your just previous post to Theodore... As a son of aging parents who also helped with their parents a couple decades ago I can tell you from personal experience that the help available, both prescription drugs and procedures is much greater today. Cataract operations are routine now, also hip and knee replacements. Lipitor was not available, hardly anyone was walking around with portable oxygen tanks, now both are commonly prescribed. At the other end of life the changes have been at least as dramatic. Preemies that would never have survived and weren't even treated 20 years ago are now routinely saved at great expense, prenatal heart surgery, transplants... This is just a scratch of the surface. There is no denying that no small part of the increase in health care costs is driven by more and better health care. Fortunately for my parents (and their children), the fact that my dad is a POW with Purple Heart with full disability (WWII, Battle of the Bulge) means they don't pay diddly for most of what's not covered by Medicare or their medigap insurance. I think this is one case (disabled vet) where even libertarians would agree that an individual has a right to expect the rest of us to pay for his health care. But for me it is the exception that proves the rule... Health care is not and cannot be a right because it violates the rights of the one(s) forced to pay for it, theft and slavery by another name.