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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:28 PM, sjc wrote:

> Now you can make a lot of money, and have the 'best' of records and
> previous care.....but if it doesn't suit the insurance company to pay
> they have many ways to shut you out believe me.

That is absolutely correct.

It is inherent in the for-profit business model to eliminate all  
overhead that does not contribute to profit. In the disease-care  
business that includes anything over the expected income from payments  
received during the policy member's lifetime. So, a geezer like me is  
a bad investment decision for an organ repair or transplant, ugh, or  
extensive hospital care, double-ugh--IF I were inclined to send my  
health care investment money to such a business model.

If the disease-care system continues as it exists today we will become  
an ever-more unhealthy society. As such we will become less productive  
and will fall behind more progressive societies. I believe it is true  
that we are the only industrial country to not have universal health  
care.

Many issues can be debated. What is incontrovertible is that Americans  
pay more for so-called health care than any other nation in the world  
and receive inferior treatment compared to other industrialized  
nations. Nearly forty-six million of our citizens have no health care  
beyond emergency services.

Such a condition is shameful. Such a condition is counterproductive.  
Such a condition is the result of politics at its worst.

Did you vote for change?