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To: Realism
Realistically if the institution of insurance, medicare/medicaid did not exist, true capitalism would drive the health industry and the cost of a hospital stay would not be $10,000 per day. The results of our socialistic system have brought us to the point where no one can afford health care.

I say do away with it all. Doctors and hospitals would then be forced to provide care at affordable rates, the personal injury lawyers would have to find a more lucrative and honorable profession, we would get health care to match our needs - not the needs of some pencil pusher in an insurance office somewhere.

I know you probably don't believe this, but I raised five children without any insurance. We traded work for what we couldn't afford and I gave birth at home. We were extremely lucky we didn't have anything catastrophic happen. In the good old days there was charity, community and the good will of the doctor for those times when catastrophe struck.

What has happened to our culture, our compassion? ....It has been struck by the monstrosity of BIG GOVERNMENT.
168 posted on 04/05/2006 9:47:04 AM PDT by colorcountry (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.....CS Lewis)
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To: colorcountry
In the good old days there was charity, community and the good will of the doctor for those times when catastrophe struck.

"In the good old days" most died before the age of 50.

172 posted on 04/05/2006 9:50:32 AM PDT by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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