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To: RMF who wrote (28124)	4/28/2008 10:03:40 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I am about halfway between you and Tim as far as age. If Social Security and Medicare were cancelled tomorrow as fraudulent sops of public funds I would most likely do ok. My father laughs at his puny check even after paying in large amounts for over five decades. My MIL is distressed over her shrinking survivor's check as Medicare grows and more is deducted. "As far as healthcare, it's not really a question of who can make better decisions about their own healthcare. It's a question of whether Companies can "afford" to continue offering the benefits they need to offer in order to attract the employees they want and need in order to stay competitive." Here you and I disagree. I believe in taking responsibility for my actions. This includes healthcare and healthcare services. Trusting a government bureaucrat to direct my healthcare is not something I would bever do. "It's a question of whether the poorer people in this country will have access to healthcare or just be forced to wait until they need emergency care and then the rest of us will get the bill." We had a great system in the nineteenth century. Doctors provided care to those in need and billed the rest of our ancestors for the cost in the form of higher fees. Because there were no middle men the cost of delivery was much less. The more layers of bureaucracy that get added the higher the cost of delivery.