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To: TimF who wrote (7579)	3/12/2009 3:48:21 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13062

They are counting these factors backwards. Depends on your point of view. Some people will stand on their heads to get a viewpoint of statistics that fits within their outlook. Your interpretations are in the very small minority. Maybe we have higher cholesterol and heart disease rates because our medical system doesn't emphasize prevention. Or maybe our system of only emergency care only for the poor has something to do with it? After all how much profit is in... prevention? And PROFIT is what it is all about in our system. Yoga class/vegetarianism vs triple heart bypass/stents/cholesterol lowering drugs? No contest where the money is. I know plenty of people who would rather have their steak and deal with the symptoms via cholesterol drugs rather than exercise and change their diet. That makes for a very inefficient system over all thought. Better to figure out ways to treat the symptoms than the cause if you are PROFIT oriented. Lots more money in selling drugs for stress reduction than there is in teaching a yoga class. In general I believe in profit motivations. But the idea that capitalism is ALWAYS superior is extreme and verges on delusional, as we've already agreed on the highway system. Like W Churchill said, Democracy is a lousy system but it's all we have.

To: TimF who wrote (7579)	3/12/2009 3:51:39 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

That's a pretty silly study. What's really silly is that it comes not from commies... but from a Roundtable of BUSINESS EXECUTIVES. Who could be more PRO capitalism? The report from the Business Roundtable, which represents CEOs of major companies, says America's health care system has become a liability in a global economy. Concern about high U.S. costs has existed for years, and business executives -- whose companies provide health coverage for workers -- have long called for getting costs under control. Just think if it were the reverse! What if the commie pary in say, Russia all of a sudden declared that capitalism worked best in most circumstances? The hue and cry!