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To: sauropod
A "free market" approach will end up putting a price on the value of a human life. This is what ultimately I am asking. Should we (as a society) put a dollar and cents value on life here?

We already do.

The wealthiest people get the best healthcare money can buy, the middle class gets only what it can afford, and the poor get only we the taxpayer can afford.

You think they are going to make the heroic efforts to save you as they will bill Gates, if you have no inusurance and can't pay for it?

I have seen for myself people being turned away from the ER of a private hospital, and told to go to the County Hospital becaue they were uninured.

Will Betty Ford take you if you find that you cannot stop drinking, or will you be more likely to turn to AA?

Prices are put on human lives all the time.

I believe that Blue Cross/Blue Shield has a $3 million lifetime benefit for most of it's policyholders. Some companies have a $1 million lieftime benefit.

I guess that's "their" price.

193 posted on 02/12/2004 4:48:04 PM PST by Stu Cohen
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To: Stu Cohen
No disagreement. At least you recognized that this exists.
194 posted on 02/12/2004 4:49:42 PM PST by sauropod (I'm Happy, You're Happy, We're ALL Happy! I'm happier than a pig in excrement. Can't you just tell?)
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