Re: Insurance thoughts


Melinda writes: > I doubt that they have carte blanche in their medical care. But even if
they did, that doesn't mean that the health insurance carried by the
most prestigious of people should be offered to every single person in
the country. For example, do you think that the government, who deeply
subsidizes public colleges, should pay students' tuition at Stanford,
Harvard, etc. because some kids get to go there? I hope not.


Your level of hope is quite low. Why shouldn't we the people get the
same level of health coverage that we provide for our esteemed leaders?
I urge you to see Michael Moore's Sicko. The reason we don't have that
level of coverage is because a bunch of corporate insurance greedheads
don't want to be denied their profits from taking our insurance premiums
and then denying us coverage so they can pocket the profits from turning
us down. I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would defend
this system. Michael Moore has tapes of Richard Nixon getting an
explanation from one of his greasy sidekicks about how HMOs will make a
profit by limiting health care, not by providing it. Nixon professes to
like this idea very much. Why are we putting up with this?


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