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To: neolib who wrote (160377)	10/26/2008 10:34:27 PM
From: John Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"If you lack the discount card, you get stiffed for the inflated list price. Talk about a screwed up system!".. This is so true and I don't understand. Insurance co. usally pays 50% or less of 'billed' and if it is covered, we're stucked with the list price, which seems to be penalized to compensate for what the insurance got away from paying.

To: neolib who wrote (160377)	10/26/2008 10:46:46 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 306849

>>Insurance should cover the high end, what you can't pay, not the low end, which is easy to budget for and pay yourself. Hence the richer you are, the higher deductible you should carry, and the cheaper your insurance will be.<< i agree, but the narcissistic, megalomaniac, sociopathic lying politicians can't get extra votes with a rational system. so they never discuss a rational system. social security ought to be welfare for the elderly and taxed as such... maybe 2-4% of all income.