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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (134490)	3/23/2010 10:27:54 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543067

Your solution is messy and who knows if it will work or not on any national level You misunderstood me. I wasn't proposing that as a solution. I was saying that's what's being done right now and that people aren't dying on the streets as you suggested.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (134490)	3/25/2010 12:45:14 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543067

>>The point is we are not going to let them die in the streets.<< I think the phrase "die in the streets" clouds this issue. What generally happens to people who have no insurance is that they don't seek medical help until something becomes urgent. Then they might, for example, discover that what they thought was just indigestion was really colon cancer, and that it's very advanced, and that they have three months to live. These people end up dying in hospitals or at home, not in the streets. But it's arguable that they would not have died had they been covered by insurance, sought help earlier, and gotten a diagnosis when their cancer was in an early stage.