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To: DScottD who wrote (11444)	7/17/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well, gosh. You sure defused me. How can I stay mad and throw tantrums when you agree with me. I still haven't found any reference to it, but I'm not very good at finding things on the net. I really want to know how old his wife is. What is she going to take to get her motor humming? ANother instance of men getting better health care than women.

To: DScottD who wrote (11444)	7/20/1998 7:07:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I think part of the trouble is something I heard a learned soul talk about on NPR one fine weekend when I was schlepping a trunkful of rifles to the range. This guy was talking about the Kaiser/Viagra policy and saying that during these past two yuppie decades, we've developed and paid for a host of "lifestyle" drugs. Discretionary prescriptions, if you will. Like: Zantac (he called it "yuppie Rolaids" and suggested far fewer folks need it than are taking it. As a fellow with bona-fide GERD I take issue with this. But hang onto yer seats - it gets better -) or Redux, the late great I-hate-weight pill, or (I forget the tradename) lovastatin, Merck's blockbuster cholesterol easer. He didn't come out and SAY it, but he was implying that we are a nation of hypochondriacs and a lot of these pills would be superfluous if we just lived cleaner. Bottom line: There is a lot of DANGEROUS puritanism out there disguising itself as a fresh breath of common sense. It often takes a "second think" to tell the sheep from the goats, opinionwise. Lifestyle drugs, my maiden aunt Fanny. Waht's next? Classifying antidepressants as crutches for the weak-headed? I tremble sometimes when I hear reasonable, soft-spoken people - self-proclaimed progressives, in the main - who on closer examination advocate a sort of retroactive eugenics. I was so worked up, my accuracy on target suffered by a quarter-inch. Alas.