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To: Garden Rose who wrote (273805)	2/1/2010 4:44:12 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yep ,they do. They influence the populace "how" to vote. Ah.. so corporations have taken away our freewill and decision-making ability? That's why they spend so much money trying to "influence" us? That influence just strips away all of our defenses and we become robots? Take for example health care. America was indoctrinated to vote against its own interest. So maybe the proponents lacked the ability (or argument) that would sway the American public to back it? If those proponents did succeed in swaying the public, would it be justifiable to assert that they were "indoctrinated" by those advocates? But the major problem with the Health Care bill, IMO, is that it was primarily negotiated in private, without much public discussion. usnews.com The PRIMARY PROBLEM is that is seems to do very little to cut costs. We simply cannot take the current cost structure that exists in our health care system and suddenly put the full cost on taxpayers as an additional entitlement. More competition seems to be what is necessary, as well as revamping of private/public insurance responsibilities for making sure cost controls are pursued vigorously. As it CURRENTLY STANDS, if I understand it correctly, private insurers are limited to a 3-4% profit on the overall cost of the medical expense. THUS, for them to make a greater profit, they have very little incentive to control costs. The greater the underlying bill, the greater their profits (and an excuse to raise premiums). I place most of the blame squarely on how medical services are provided and lack of cost controls by hospital personnel. Hawk