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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (625530)	8/22/2011 9:08:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

>> There are assistance programs for people with limited means, such as Medicaid. There are, but these are HEAVILY abused. Certainly one of the largest sources for street sales of prescription drugs around the country. Oxycontin, Xanax, Oxycodone, and Hydrocodone. It is pathetic. And Adderol (amphetemine). I work with one clinic that probably sees 60 pts/d and I'd wager 70% are drug-seekers and 85% Medicaid. Dr. Visit paid for, prescription paid for, and 30-20mg Oxycodones will bring $600 on the street. Or more. Every city and significant town in the country has them. miamiherald.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (625530)	8/23/2011 9:43:22 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

But there's nothing altruistic about universal health care. In fact, that's just the result of people not wanting to pay for their own health insurance like they do for car or homeowner's insurance. Why not just expand Medicaid instead of coming up with grand plans of nationalizing health care? And watch the republican complaints avalanche... if you force people to buy health care they take you to court on the grounds of constitutionality...meantime they profess individual responsibility If you cut medicare to lower costs as they did with MA....OMG they are cutting your medicare (even if they then pass a budget that essentially kills it) if you recommend best practices panels to curb costs or EOL couseling...they are instituting death panels if you expand medicaid...it's another government give away and the government is good at nothing it does, and it's rife with abuse, etc...etc... How do you get anything done amid this cacophony....? Al