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To: mishedlo who wrote (101038)	8/20/2009 2:26:33 AM
From: pogohere	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

and then there's this: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net a lecture by Elizabeth Warren, ~57 minutes uctv.tv * Elizabeth Warren (born 1949 or 1950 in Oklahoma) is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law. In the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis, she has also become the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U.S. banking bailout, formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program. en.wikipedia.org

To: mishedlo who wrote (101038)	8/20/2009 10:55:42 AM
From: Steve Lokness	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

In everyone of the plans, young healthy workers and the wealthy (cutoff point unknown) will subsidize everyone else Well of course. That is how every single health care in the world works. You can't expect cancer victims and 90 year old grandma's to pay their own way can you? By the way that is how it works now in America with health insurance.

To: mishedlo who wrote (101038)	8/20/2009 3:21:19 PM
From: benwood	4 Recommendations Respond to of 116555

"In everyone of the plans, young healthy workers and the wealthy (cutoff point unknown) will subsidize everyone else" If you are diagnosed with something like my brother has -- Parkinson's -- then you would be thankful to live in a society that give's a rat's ass. Or my good friend who was just diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. I love the reverse lottery... pay in a little bit and hope to God I don't end up with a healthcare nightmare for a prize. So far I have mostly won and thus paid in but got little out -- just my good health. Anybody without good health realizes that all the rest means so much less.