"Sara" > wrote in message ...
> Tarver Engineering wrote:
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> >"Guy" > wrote in message
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> >>"Oelewapper" > wrote in message
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> >>>GWB: "A government-run health care system is the wrong prescription. By
> >>>keeping costs under control, expanding access, and helping more
> >>>
> >>>
> >Americans
> >
> >
> >>>afford coverage, we will preserve the system of private medicine that
> >>>
> >>>
> >>makes
> >>
> >>
> >>>America's health care the best in the world."
> >>>
> >>>
> >>There is statistical evidence such as infant mortality rates and life
> >>expectancy that might contradict this statement. But, to me, there isn't
a
> >>whole lot wrong with the American health care delivery system. I agree
> >>
> >>
> >with
> >
> >
> >>Bush on this (he says, holding his nose).
> >>
> >>On the other hand, the health *insurance* system is badly broken. It
> >>
> >>
> >allows
> >
> >
> >>insurers to cherry pick, and adds extra bureacracy that costs an
estimated
> >>at $200 - $250 billion annually when compared to a government
single-payer
> >>system such as Canada's. This extra money contributes nothing to health
> >>care. It's just a collosal waste.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Canada's health care system is rationed such that curable breast cancer
is a
> >death sentence. Canada's health care system fails to address women's
health
> >care needs.

> Ours is rationed so that curable cancers and infections are a death
> sentence for people who can't afford the ridiculously high insurance
> premiums.

No.

> When the middle class and a lot of hardworking people are
> priced out of the US healthcare system, there is something wrong here.

Right, but that is the cost of treating AIDS.

> The insurance companies continue to make the same profits they always
> have. They don't experience bad times.

Would you feel better if foggotry destroyed corporations?