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- From: garrett@Ingres.COM (TRUTH IS. BELIEF IS NOT REQUIRED.)
- Subject: Re: Universal Coverage != Socialized Medicine!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.022536.28735@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Summary: Making sense!
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- References: <1993Jan27.200237.39913@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 02:25:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.200237.39913@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jpr1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (James P. Reynolds) writes...
- >In article <C1H6AK.2In@umassd.edu>, pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman) write
- >>Hitler and Stalin liked socialized medicine. Why not President Slickwillie?
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- >Why do the conservatives think that universal health insurance is socialized
- >medicine? Clinton is not thinking of having the government employ doctors.
- >Why do you think Americans are paying 1000 dollars for an MRI that costs 177
- >dollars in Japan? Why do you think we are spending 14 percent of our GNP on a
- >system that 1/7 of our population has no access to? Why is every OTHER
- >country in the industrialized world spending less than 10 percent and covering
- >everyone? Why do we rank near the BOTTOM of the list of these countries in
- >crucial health indicators such as life expectancy?
-
- [...]
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- >It's because our "private" system is WORSE than their national health
- >insurance, not better. We have a wasteful, bureaucratic system that overtreats
- >the rich at the expense of basic care for the poor. How do you expect to take
- >care of the deficit if health care costs are increasing at a rate more than
- >twice the rest of the economy?
- >
- There you go again. MAKING SENSE! Don't you realize that no one that you
- are addressing this too wants to hear that. So stop wasting bandwidth this
- this...information. (big :-))
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- >James P. Reynolds (that's Jim to you and me.) jpr1@lehigh.edu
- > Lehigh University Materials Science Rules jreynolds@igc.org
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