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To: RMF who wrote (36481)	8/24/2009 8:24:16 AM
From: Peter Dierks	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Government takeover of the HealthCare industry is not as benign as you would like to believe. What will the 88 million people ho are forced off of employer sponsored plans onto the government option do to the budget. If the real issue is the five million Americans who cannot get medical insurance then why don't they just cover them under the Congressional plan? Why do they have to destroy half of all insurers to cover those five million?

To: RMF who wrote (36481)	10/3/2009 10:29:37 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

When polled, "nearly three-quarters of physicians supported some form of a public option, either alone or in combination with private insurance options," says Dr. Salomeh Keyhani. She and Dr. Alex Federman, both internists and researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, conducted a random survey, by mail and by phone, of 2,130 doctors. They surveyed them from June right up to early September. Most doctors — 63 percent — say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they'd like to see a single-payer health care system. That's the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent.