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To: Amy J who wrote (183543)	2/26/2006 8:34:07 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

re: We definitely don't want to go to a public health care. While public health care does have better preventive care (because they look at the total life cost of patient care rather than annual care), we are substantially better when it comes to handling the critical things that need more immediate attention than a year to two year wait would permit. You can't judge everything by Canada. We pay double for our health care yet our stats are worse than most single payer systems.

To: Amy J who wrote (183543)	2/26/2006 8:34:17 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

It's the poor that suffer in a public health care plan - because the rich simply come to the USA for better care. Sure in the micro sense but in the macro sense a nation that spends 20% of their GDP on healthcare- with nothing to show for it except a higher infant mortality level- is heading for economic decline imho. There is no real benefit to the US with all this spending. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health-care spending is outpacing the growth of the American economy and will consume 20 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by 2015, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Wednesday. today.reuters.co.uk