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To: TimF who wrote (14108)	3/31/2012 10:53:46 AM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

In the 60s a lot of health care was non profit. We have seen a shift over the past 30-40 years from a system where much of it was non profit to a system where profits drives the whole thing. I agree with you that when it comes to health care in the US we have the worst case scenario. Costs spiraling up and lowering standards of care. The profit motive adds in a built in conflict of interest. On the one side is the best care for the patient, and on the other side is the desire to keep costs down so profits will be higher.

To: TimF who wrote (14108)	4/1/2012 12:27:03 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

A better example of the right being out of control is the attack on the Post Office. In the late Bush regime a totally unreasonable burden was placed on the post office, that they had to fund something like 100 years of health care in a short time. That is why they are so called having problems now, because of this unreasonable burden which makes it that they start the year with a $5 billion deficit. This is a deliberate killing by legislative burden. Take this burden away or make it reasonable and the post office is solvent.