Re: Canadians and others who think the US is evil

From: George Conklin (nilknoc_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/31/04


Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:40:00 GMT


"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:4hvmg0li8vftb8bceau0l5d0nhtd4shjja@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:40:01 GMT, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
> <mschnerd@XXXX.carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>
> snip...
> >Your problem is that you see the 85% of us with insurance as "the eite".
> >Perhaps we are. You could join us, if you were to get a job. I consider
free
> >healthcare a right as well: it comes as a benefit of my employment.
>
> Darling, dearest sweetie pie of my heart--one of the reasons for a lot
> of major labor unrest is how restrictive, increasingly costly and
> problematic healthcare through employment is for more and more
> Americans. And for those of us in the non-profit and small business
> world, the costs are just beyond the income altogether.
>
> The system is NOT working. It is falling apart. Partly because of a
> lack of a single payer healthcare system. Partly because of the abuse
> of the patent system. And a lot because the industry is out of control
> in prices they charge for medications, diagnostics, procedures,
> devices, etc. It's obscenely unbalanced.
>
> George M. Carter
>

  They system is working well for providers, and that is why it does not
change. Providers do nothing but complain about everything but that just
serves to make sure we never get universal health care in the USA, the main
goal of keeping medicine a 'privilege.'



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