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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Disease-care business decisions
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:10:58 -0800 (PST)

It certainly is 'not' "incontrovertible". many will dispute your 'opinion'
. I don't know about Susan , but I'm one of the few who actually voted for
real "change". I did not vote for a single Democrat or
Republican....................................

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Disease-care business decisions
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 1:01 PM
> 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?
>
>
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