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To: i-node who wrote (464935)	3/19/2009 7:13:09 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1576163

David, I don't think that government ought to be involved in the health care business. But since it is, and irreversibly so, we should seek ways to improve the situation (thus the concept of government run clinics for the indigent to relieve pressure, and cost, to local ERs). Ultimately, isn't a question of the extent to which health care is a "right"? My belief is that it is NOT a right, rather, it is something that government may elect to make available and it need not be the best in the world to make a significant improvement in many people's lives. The need for health care (very much like welfare) may be 90% self inflicted. I am not talking about right or not or who pays. The biggest headway to be made is not with a trillion dollar research budget into some magic bullet in medicine, but in preventing the 90% of illnesses that are self inflicted. Does it really matter that a magic drug is invented to manage Type II diabetes if there is no one left who brought diabetes onto themselves? Joe