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To: Ilaine who wrote (89182)

4/16/2012 9:57:40 PM

From: Maurice Winn

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Yes CB, there are some things that can be done, but in general bacon is as always made. As with so many things, I suspect the "safe" bacon without nitrites isn't as delicious as the regular stuff. Regarding microwaving instead of frying, that's not necessarily any better because it's the temperatures and time involved rather than the method of making it hot. To brown it, the bacon has to reach molecular destruction temperatures which are the same temperatures at which the nasty chemical reactions really get cooking in frying <
Bacon doesn't need nitrates and nitrates and doesn't need to be fried. Microwave it on paper towels and the paper towels absorb the fat.
> The fat is the good, delicious, part! The brown [black] is the bad part.

I don't bother with health insurance. <Surprised your health insurance doesn't cover. Here in the USA it's considered essential for preventive maintenance. > I don't see why I should pay:

Administrative costs and lots of overheads from office buildings to advertising
Tax on the incomes of all those people involved in administering the insurance
Fake insurance claims
Excessive "cover yourself" testing
Treatment for unhealthy people whether they are unlucky or self-destructive
My cost in worrying about insurance, figuring it out, administering it.
Profits to the shareholders of insurance companies.

If I want some medical help, I get my money out and pay people who know what they are doing. There never seems to be a shortage of such people. I choose who I hire [unless there's a government monopoly on the process].

If such a test is considered "essential", then I'm saving that much money. I don't consider it essential and neither does my GP.

From Wikipedia: <Kaiser’s 2009 survey found that employer health insurance premiums were $13,375 for a family and $4824 for a single person. > And there is presumably some sort of exclusion list, limits on treatment, no choice in treatment, some user-pays aspect. That's serious money. My costs would not be remotely close to that.

Mqurice