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Subject: running out of assets
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:43:13 -0400
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>Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:39:28 -0500 >From: nowak@comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak) = >Subject: Re: Medicare/Medicaid - Running out of assets >snip = >I resent the system that makes this the smartest way to deal with >the issue for most people. This wouldn't happen in a system in >which everyone was insured or we had socialized medicine. = Everyone in the U.S. has medical insurance in one form or the other. If you can not pay for medical care, the taxpayers will pay for it for you. Emergency rooms can not turn anyone away if they come for treatment. Free hospitals, often called county hospitals, are everywhere. Taxpayers pay for medical care at county hospitals and all paying hospital patients pay for emergency room care for people that can not pay. >Without those things, a grass roots movement to change the >system or a sensible legislature, intelligent people cannot be >blamed for looking out for themselves. Capitalism is based on >survival of the fittest. It would be unAmerican to spend money if >you could find a way not to. If greedy politicians or lobbyists >aren't looking out for your self interests or those of your family, >don't blame people for doing what they can to look out for >themselves. In a sense, our policians become our role models for >better or for worse. I totally disagree with the idea that it is un-American to spend money if you can find a way not to. If I give away all of my money and then find a way for the taxpayers to pay my medical bills, that is just plain wrong. It may be legal but it is still wrong. = = BOB FORD BOB_FORD@COMPUSERVE.COM = - -
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