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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Taling about a "system over which you have no control".  I magine it when the 
beauracrats are all employed by the federal gov't, instead of private 
companies, and are backed up by men with rifles and keys to prison cells.  We 
have no debtors prisons now, unless you don't pay the gov't........

The system needs changes -- big changes.  A start of the change that is 
needed is to slowly remove the part that is 'now' controlled and/or 
influenced by gov't , politicians, beauracrats.  We need a closer 
relationship with our healthcare provoders, not one made even more 
distant.......


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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:

> From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tell me again why Republicans are good for people
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 1:40 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > ..........The poor have no assets to take, and , for
> now, the gov't picks up the bill.
> >
> >   
> Just the other day I read an article about the numbers, and
> the most 
> specifically horrifying thing I remember is that in many
> states, the 
> number of people on their state (mostly that amounts to
> Medicaid) rolls 
> who were qualified because previous medical bills had
> bankrupted them....
> 
> This guy's thrust was that those people should be
> ineligible for 
> Medicaid, and I failed to grasp, still do, the reasoning
> behind that.  
> The thing that occurred to me is that intervention needs to
> happen way 
> before they reach that point, so they can still be
> responsible for 
> themselves, but I really sort of forgot about it, guess I
> wasn't in a 
> mood to get all het up about something I had to think so
> much about or 
> something, now I can't remember where I read it. 
> Don't put my hand on 
> it here, but seems like I was somewhere else when I read it
> anyway.
> 
> But it's scary to think that we can be bankrupted by a
> system over which 
> we have little control, then left in the cold.....
> 
> I've no clue what all the answer entails, but I know it
> is both huge and 
> urgent.
> 
> SJ
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