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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344027)	7/23/2007 8:32:30 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573690

Will the gov give me comfortable shoes for when I have to wait in line ?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344027)	7/23/2007 9:03:34 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573690

You do know you're just one bad quarter from a layoff?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344027)	7/23/2007 10:09:46 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573690

Researchers compared our statistics to those of five other major countries around the world: Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Canada, and New Zealand. Apparently, the U.S. is the only one of the bunch that doesn't provide universal health care to all citizens. In fact, there are roughly 45 million Americans who don't have health insurance at all. And to add insult to injury, those of us who do have insurance are actually paying at least twice -- and in some cases, three times - the going rate in other countries. Here, the average yearly cost is about $6,000. In Germany and Canada the annual rate is about half of that. And New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain all rank somewhere in the $2,000-3,000 range. Sources: "U.S. healthcare expensive, inefficient: report," Reuters Health news, 5/15/07

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344027)	7/24/2007 6:13:48 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573690

re: But hey, I'll be covered if I stop working! Which, of course, I already acknowledged as the only benefit of universal health care ... Do you acknowledge the ancillary benefit of taking health care out of employers hands (and administrative costs)? The major competition for our corps are companies based in countries with universal care, where the cost is about 50% or ours and is more widely distributed. The convoluted and mish/mash system of employer paid health care never made any sense; it adds to cost and is certainly not their expertise. And do you acknowledge the lower overall costs with single payer in other industrialized countries, with the same or better performance? All this stuff is well documented.