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To: Little Joe who wrote (60701)	8/14/2009 5:34:58 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

FACTCHECK.ORG Seven Falsehoods About Health Care Big myths about the current debate ...contd at newsweek.com

To: Little Joe who wrote (60701)	8/14/2009 8:36:11 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

YOu are being duped by the rich robber barrons i.e. private health care industry . They are using you. You want to reverse medicare, socal security, medicaid, VA health care. Those are all government programs. Since Reagan was elected the rich have gotten steadily richer (by a lot) and the poor poorer. Maybe that is Ok with you, but not me. We got rid of the feudal system of lords and serfs long ago and I for one do not want to go back to that.

To: Little Joe who wrote (60701)	8/15/2009 2:48:17 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The insurance companies also stand to benefit from health care reforms. Right now they are picking up the tab and people are still not satisfied with their services. You would think they would smarten up like the pharma industry. Why is the insurance industry shying away from competition and instead want the status quo? Here is a British POV on the existing US health care system. =========================================== US healthcare expenditure - the biggest waste of money in the world By Jeremy Warner Economics Last updated: August 14th, 2009 I don’t claim to be any kind of an expert on the US healthcare debate. Far from it. But what I do know is that in its totality, healthcare spending in the US is one of the most inefficient uses of money anywhere in the world. Despite the fact that well over half this spending is private, it fails to obey the first principles of efficient market theory. US healthcare makes even the notorious inefficiences of state spending in the UK look tolerable by comparison. ...contd at blogs.telegraph.co.uk