Re: Canadians and others who think the US is evil

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: 1 Aug 2004 16:17:27 -0500

In article <wNcPc.22358$iK.5584@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
George Conklin <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote:

>"Herman Rubin" <hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu> wrote in message
>news:cejhq7$147k@odds.stat.purdue.edu...

>> I am not now, and never have been, an advocate of what you
>> seem to call insurance, but really is prepaid care, and has
>> no semblance of insurance.

> Herman, you forget you did not CHOOSE to become a diabetic, and thus for
>you it was not prepaid care. It was a risk.

Did I say otherwise? I am willing to pay the costs of my
medical care, and even if I would be paying more if that
falls to me, while the outrageous costs of government welfare
and charity, the largest item in the present budget, are
decreased, I would accept it. I am not willing to pay for
much of the government stupidity.

In fact, I would probably get more than I am now getting,
as the obstacles would be removed, and the massive overhead
decreased. You have no idea how much the combination of
government regulations, and the HMO-insurance combination
spawned by it, restricts access. 

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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
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