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    LL> afford to get sick and die.  It is a sick and disgusting   
    LL> system that we have, worse than what the poorest folks in   
    LL> third world countries have.   
      
    No, not that bad, but no where near as good as the rest of the   
    industrialized world.   
      
    BK>>> Yes. But it's not as wide as you seem to think.   
      
   JM>>Or as close as you do.   
      
    LL> Obviously, those 12 people killed in that movie theater did   
    LL> not need medical attention.  But what about the 58 or 59   
    LL> others who were wounded? Did they need to have health   
    LL> insurance in order to receive medical attention?  Obviously   
      
    They don't have to have insurance to get emergency treatment,   
    but they should get billed. Some of the hospitals have announced   
    they will not charge the uninsured, and will waive co-pays for   
    the insured, but that's only because it's big news. If you got   
    shot and it wasn't big news you would pay the co-pay, and if you   
    were uninsured you would be chased down for the full cost. And   
    that full cost would be more than the insurance company would   
    pay.   
      
    Oh, the hospital waiver does not cover the doctors.   
      
    LL> not.  And why should anybody be forced to have health   
    LL> insurance?  Burt Reynolds was right - "All insurance is   
    LL> scam."   
      
    If is if it's not on the order of what the rest of the   
    industrialize world has.   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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