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To: John Chen who wrote (199854)	5/3/2009 1:28:06 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Sure we do. You think the 'for profit insurance companies' pay for it, NO. Patients pay for it, either directly or through their insurance companies or via the taxes they pay. That's the point. If you think you can just excise costs out of the system and still end up the best health care system in the world, you're nuts. You might have some minor savings on the periphery, but the real costs are there because America is doing the R&D and using heroic measures to save lives. Ultimately, if you make major cuts in costs -- 15-20%/year, for example -- you are going to do so at the expense of quality health care. Having been paying ALL the years and entering the time to get some benefits back and now it's blamed NOT PAYING ENOUGH? Sorry, I can't make sense of this sentence.