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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1104)	4/12/2006 3:30:03 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Peter, Laz, and Thread, We made a dreadful mistake when we allowed the insurance industry to enter the healthcare market in the first place. We made an even worse mistake when we began expecting our employers to pay for this insurance. I don't think that presently there is any way to back away from those regrettable mistakes. The die have been cast and have been carved in granite. Healthcare is a commodity, not unlike the groceries we buy on a regular basis, I do believe, and never should have been compensated as anything else or by anyone else, for such expectation of entitlement is, to my way of thinking, the major reason for the currently exorbitant costs of healthcare. - Holly

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1104)	4/12/2006 4:10:20 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Peter, If you can believe this my first employer-supplied health insurance coverage was a mere $4 a month (in 1971 by an accredited hospital employer). Feeling like a frog in warm water but on the stove, on high heat, I have to say that those were the days! Now it costs me about $266 a month--more than I ever paid out of my own pocket, in a month, on my own healthcare, on an average, in all my ancient (by many to most standards) life! <g> - Holly