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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (449090)	10/4/2011 12:54:51 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794016

by law, hospitals MUST accept patients that present themselves.. That's the issue - forced to cover, but it's essentially wrong to force people to have coverage. This is the central hypocrisy of our age. A true libertarian would call the motorcycle enthusiast with no health care what he should be - *an organ donor*. In today's America - that idiot can choose not to buy healthcare - but the medical community is forced to cover him. I completely understand the constitutional argument against requiring health care insurance, but completely disagree with placing the medical community under the gun to support the uninsured. It is an unfunded mandate that we then use to critique medical providers who must charge outrageous prices to the insured and wealthy. In every sense it is another tax we ants pay to support the grasshoppers of our world.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (449090)	10/4/2011 1:12:41 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	17 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794016

I bet George Soros, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates could create a healthcare superfund that would solve all of our healthcare problems. Buffett could donate $45B which would employ 18,000 doctors for 10 years at $250,000 per year Bill Gates could also donate $45B to employ another 36,000 nurses and supporting personnel for 10 years at an average of $125,000 per year. George Soros could donate $15B for facility expenses this would leave them all still billionaires. And since they don't think they are getting taxed enough anyway, let's help them out by relieving them of some of their cash. We'll even name some hospital wings after them