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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138921)	9/27/2008 11:45:25 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Respond to of 173976

With that cost data in hand it is quite interesting to overlay average life spans, the death rate of newborns and other indicators of general health and then note the USA is far down the list from the top. Our health care system is seriously deficient.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138921)	9/28/2008 1:34:38 AM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

Right-o. US health care is a rip-off. It is hugely bloated, inefficient and will implode on itself (and on us) within a few years at the rate it is going. This financial bailout will only hasten the day of reckoning. If we lay the faster-than-inflation growth of health care with the employers paying LESS and the employee picking up more of the costs on top of this: - a generation ago it took 50% of 1 income to pay for the basic expenses of a family. - now it takes 75% of 2 incomes to do the same. We have either 1 more bedroom or 1 more bathroom but not both so that's not the problem. Wage growth sucks, inflation is much higher than the government lets on, the savings rate is negative and credit card companies are still allowed to charge 30% on debt. This is why Americans are feeling massively stressed...we are massively stressed. 30 years of Reaganomics, piss-down/trick-down economic garbage has led to this.