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To: Road Walker who wrote (258718)	11/7/2005 8:55:22 AM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573201

>The U.S. system is much more bureaucratic, with much higher administrative costs, than those of other countries, because private insurers and other players work hard at trying not to pay for medical care. And our fragmented system is unable to bargain with drug companies and other suppliers for lower prices. Arnold Schwartzanager is a TOOL for Insurance and Big Pharmacy in ways and means YET unimagined and unexplained..... On a very deep level....that's what this Nov 8th special election (Schwartzanagers' special election) in California is all about.... INSURANCE has gotten way too powerful. California has the Highest work comp rates in the country and the LOWEST payout per injury....Somebody is getting rich.... Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who...

To: Road Walker who wrote (258718)	11/7/2005 9:59:56 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573201

General Motors is reducing retirees' medical benefits. Delphi has declared bankruptcy, and will probably reduce workers' benefits as well as their wages. Why, hell yes. Because the freaking unions have decimated the American automobile industry. These companies are both in horrible financial condition as a result of massive payments they have to make for essentially unskilled laborers. And that's BEFORE the billions spent on their healthcare. The American auto industry has become totally uncompetitive as a result of the damned unions. You can't build enough Silverado trucks to pay the healthcare of every GM employee. Duh. An internal Wal-Mart memo describes plans to cut health costs by hiring temporary workers, who aren't entitled to health insurance, and screening out employees likely to have high medical bills. I'm not sure how Walmart can be criticized for this policy. OF COURSE they want to hire only healthy people. OF COURSE they want to use less expensive workers when they can. OF COURSE they want to hire workers who aren't likely to have high medical bills. I'm not sure what Krugman and you, the Socialists, want. Maybe Walmart should just shut its stores down and go home. Perhaps that would satisfy you two, but nothing else will.