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To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (33017)	11/28/2009 8:46:28 PM
From: John Metcalf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52153

Gary, congratulations on successful surgery, and best wishes on your recovery. Like you, I participated in government-run healthcare, as a military brat, when I was a child. During a career in the field of rehabilitation, I knew many people who received excellent healthcare through Medicare and Medicaid. It seems to me that extending Medicare/caid availability to everyone, on a sliding fee scale, would solve the uninsured problem without opening up healthcare to government direction nor the special interest Christmas tree that Congress is creating by writing rules. Why do we need the cumbersome legislation with attendant private deals when we could simply enlarge a successful model?

To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (33017)	11/28/2009 8:59:22 PM
From: tom pope	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52153

If Medicare founders (why the IF?) it will be because there is no procedure it will not pay for, multiple times. I've now had 4 CAT scans and 2 MRI's in my little adventure with prostate cancer. Were all of them necessary, or were some just done to confirm a marker placement or to confirm the extent of the disease? Rationing will have to come in somewhere, but that's a third rail. As a result, Medicare WILL founder under its own weight. When I go back up to Duke on Monday I'll try to find out if my death panel has convened yet. It might save me hotel expense.

To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (33017)	11/29/2009 11:31:07 AM
From: Arthur Radley	2 Recommendations Respond to of 52153

I normally don’t agree with Donlan, but considering I’ve suggested one read TR Reid’s recent book on the world’s health care systems, I would recommend Donlan’s review of the more significant aspects of his visits within the various ‘medical’ systems employed by numerous nations around the world. online.barrons.com Now when you add the front page article in today’s NYTs relating to the growing need for food stamps in our nation, ask yourself why we recently spent $53 million dollars to build a hospital in Iraq that sits empty and unused by the Iraqi people? nytimes.com As pointed out in Donlan’s review, and my previous mention, how simple the filing of medical claims in France takes places, the first question one should surmise is that by automatically paying all claims filed in France, this will lead to open fraud. Someone explain why France pays only half what we pay per person here in the US for medical coverage but it is we that have all the fraud? It is WE that have all the administrative cost that questions is stage of the process…it is WE that spend 20 cents of every dollar in insurance premium for administering our medical claims. With no money for the last eight years put into the federal budget to fight wars where we then spend billions of dollars to insure foreigner’s good medical care, then why is it that we now question the cost of providing medical care for United States of America citizens?