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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (555527)	3/16/2010 6:35:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576601

but you insist obesity rates don't affect the system You seem to have a problem with reading plain English. I insisted on no such point. The point is NOT that obesity rates don't affect the insurance system, but that the insurance system does not significantly affect the obesity rate, or at least the differences in the insurance system between say the US and Canada, or the US and wealthy European countries do not do so. What country endures such long waits for medical care that even one of its top insurers recently admitted that care is "not timely" and people "initially diagnosed with cancer are waiting over a month, which is intolerable?" If you guessed Canada, guess again. The answer is the United States. People in every country wait, sometime an intolerably long time, but the US system is generally the most responsive certainly more so than Canada's for many situations.