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     Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   >>    Insurance is a racket.  The company is betting it will never be used,   
   the customer betting it will pay if needed.   
   >    
   > You're 100% banging on all 8 cylinders. . .   
      
      Of course, I'm always right, (he wrote modestly).  :)   
      
   > Here we're born having full coverage for all medical stuff, & people milk it   
   & abuse it.   
      
     People down here do the same, they clog up ER's with all sorts of minor   
   problems.   
      
   > I don't go to ER unless it truly cannot wait til the next day   
      
     The only times I've gone to the ER is for some problem that can't wait.   
     I can count on one hand the number of times in the last 50 yeas and a   
   couple of them was due on-the-job injury and the company wanted CYA from   
   workers comp.   
      I have a few recurring minor health problems, I've handled them in the   
   past, know what to do and take care of it myself.   
      And I have taken only one sick day in something like 40 years.   
         
   > Most of my last ERs were for kidney stones (the worst pain humans ever   
   suffer, I've been told, & believe it   
      
     I've heard the same thing and thankfully have never experienced them.   
      
   > division that focuses on bringing enhanced medical services to local   
   residents, for a fee for premium options, like housecalls. (we, by law, can't   
   charge for housecalls,    
      
     I can't recall the last time doctors down here made house calls.   
     My father was a GP (general practitioner/family doctor) from 1922-62.  I   
   can't count the number of times he would get a phone call in the middle of   
   the night to go somewhere.   
     He delivered a lot of babies, to usually poor farm families.  People were   
   proud then and didn't want charity.  Most of them were struggling and paid   
   in kind when possible.  He was paid in produce, farm products (hams, sides of   
   beef, etc) sometimes in chicke   
      When I was about five or six to around 11 I often went him when he was   
   delivering a baby.  I had one of two jobs.   
      One was if other kids around to get them out of the house and from   
   underfoot and show me their farm, tell what they did, etc.   
      If only the couple in the house the father helped delivering the baby   
   and my father would bring a new born to me and tell me to watch it, and if it   
   turned blue to call him when he went back to do whatever he and the father   
   were doing.   
     I never saw a blue baby.   
       
   > It's like any gambling: the only way to truly come out ahead is to own the   
   house!   
      
     Number one rule of gambling: The house always wins.   
     Joe   
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