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To: TimF who wrote (9758)	2/19/2012 12:53:47 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

<<<<No we don't. We not only don't need it, we wouldn't even benefit from it.>>>>> Well we have to figure out some way to bring the cost down. As I pointed out to you recently we spend way more than anyone else on health care. As the world becomes more and more competitive - that leaves us at an increasingly competitive disadvantage.

To: TimF who wrote (9758)	2/19/2012 2:22:03 PM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

<<and it is best for the people. No it isn't.>> Funny, that all other democracies see it as best for the people. <<Like an 80 year old women would be able to get affordable healthcare. Someone else paying for something doesn't make it more affordable, it just means the tab is being picked up by someone else, its still just as effective (unless the tab being picked up by the government means there is going to be rationing of care).>> So what do you do, just let that 80 year old women die. She won't be able to get health care. In every other western democracy she would get health care! <<When someone is hurt, a decent society will be there for them. Our society is, at least about as much as other societies are.>> Nonsense, every other western democracy has universal health care--geeze!