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To: Road Walker who wrote (306980)	10/19/2006 1:18:15 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575623

JF, > You conveniently cut off his thought... Does that make a difference? The kind of abuse isn't the "hypochondriac" that chooses to go to the hospital instead of going to the beach. That's a straw man. (Something that should have set off your hypersensitive "straw man detector.") Instead, the kind of abuse includes: - Overprescription of drugs, especially boutique drugs over generic. - Getting insurance to pay for unnecessary procedures and prescriptions. Why should Viagra be part of "health benefits," for instance? Is that more urgent than the poor kid waiting for a kidney transplant? - Doctors running all sorts of expensive tests on common symptoms like the flu in order to cover themselves from malpractice. Doesn't cost them or the patient a dime, so why not? - And don't get me started on malpractice lawyers ... > Would there be some abuse; certainly. Would the good outweigh the bad; yes. What's the saying? "Don't make the good a victim of the perfect". As usual, you're pretending that universal health care is a panacea. Tenchusatsu