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To: tsigprofit who wrote (18034)	7/11/2005 7:42:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

Uhhuh, and I've read of stories of people in countries with socialized medicine dying while on waiting lists for treatment. Throwing your question back, would you be proud of that if that was America? I know socialized medical systems ration health care based on the age and number of future tax-paying years the person has. It seems to me socialized medicine is something liberal people are for in order to show their compassion. But it isn't going to magically produce womderful health care for everyone. I don't know how my grandparents managed without someon paying their health care for them. None of them had any health insurance. One set of grandparents were sharecroppers - one died in his late 70's, his wife died in her 90's. They had 12 kids and somehow managed without any help from the government of any kind. My other grandmother died young - in her early 60's - of cancer. She'd had 3 operations for cancer in the years before her death so it wasn't for lack of medical care she died so young. Must have been expensive for my grandfather whose last job was spreading asphalt for a paving company, yet he wasn't financially ruined though he suffered much emotionally. He lived on into his mid 80's before dying of a stroke. Left $100K+ plus their little 40 acre farm to my Mom. He'd always avoided going to doctors to which he attributed his lifelong good health.