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I would have to agree, but as always I see both sides. 
I've had both lousy and great HMOs, so I know they don't 
all terminate their incompetent employees even if they 
can. I also know some very dedicated, hardworking 
government employees. Overall, I'm satisfied with my HMO 
coverage except that it's costing us too much of our 
income and we aren't sure how we'll afford it when we 
retire. Fortunately, we are fairly healthy, and each year 
we don't have enough medical expenses to itemize on our 
taxes. We just pray we don't come down with something that 
would make us uninsurable. We know a lot of couples in 
your situation, one working just to get healthcare 
insurance. I'm hoping these issues will be resolved.



On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:56:19 -0800 (PST)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sage , the ultimate 'insurer' in gov't run healthcare 
> 'is' the gov't.  They also push as much paper on the 
> practitioners, now, as do the insurance companies.  
>
> One big difference is that a really incompetent private 
> insurance company employee can be terminated.  Not true 
> for gov't employees.  Sometimes, I think general 
> incompetence is a postive on a resume or C.V. for a gov't 
> position ...............................................