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To: Investor2 who wrote (5648)	10/1/2010 9:17:08 AM
From: Boca_PETE	1 Recommendation Respond to of 10065

I think if efforts to not fund in the interim and ultimately repeal ObamaCare (aka "DMV-Post Office Healthcare") fail, the unintended consquences from this legislation nobody read will be an increasing healthcare disaster for everyone. I think about this every time I'm mailing a certified envelope at the Post Office window and the clerk says "Would you like to send you envelope Express Mail, Overnight, Insured...." even though the slip I properly affixed to the envelope specifies perfectly what I want and need. The clerks tell me they are instructed to ask this of every customer. Can you imagine yourself on a gerny rolling in to have your appendix removed and the doctor asking you if you also want a heart bypass operation and your spleen removed? It's hard to come up with examples of things the Government does well in a cost effective way. JMHO P

To: Investor2 who wrote (5648)	10/1/2010 9:57:46 AM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10065

My guess is total health care costs for the US would drop a ton if they went out of business or were required to charge enough for their food-like products to cover the costs to society for eating them. Somehow I feel the millionaire franchise owners get away with hiring people who may have citizenship papers from the same company that provided them to Meg Whitman so they can pay a low salary and charge less than other places for "foodlike products" ... are having people like me pay for the damage their products do to society and the health care of their "part time" employees who probably don't have health care... <rant mode off> BTW, unintended consequences of OBC will be automation of most low skill jobs, perhaps with drive up windows operated by people in Viet Nam over the internet... non public jobs like fry cook will be automated to save health care... and most low skill jobs will vanish. I've read this is already happening in Spain where they made it very expensive to hire or fire people. It is great news for one of my top stock holdings that is up over 100% YTD.