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To: D. Long who wrote (214761)	8/6/2007 12:52:48 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793986

It is a self-inflicted wound. It is. I completely agree. As long as we pay for other people's health problems, it will persist. But there's no way to go back, now. People love their company or government provided health "insurance."

To: D. Long who wrote (214761)	8/6/2007 2:04:56 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793986

That's true. But society pays the cost one way or the other. You either pay it collectively in services, or you pay it by living in the kind of society that lets people far as fall as there is to fall- and the degradation that flows from that. Private charities never have the same kinds of nets as the state. If you look at England, when Dickens was writing about it, and the workhouses, and the state of public hospitals, you will see what you get when you rely on charity. There's nothing wrong with wanting a model like that, but most people don't want it right now. I'm not sure how you'd sell them on it.