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To: KBtry4-11
There is no way out. Boomers are currently sympathetic because they are watching their own elderly parents struggle with the cost of prescriptions. Then they fast-forward a few years and see what they will face. It's over. The biggest block of current voters, be they left or right, want this.

Then we are watching the destruction of our advanced medical system if not the collapse of our country. ---Socialism brought down the Soviet Union and it will bring down us too. What people are being led to believe is they can have even more health care and pay nothing for it ----someone else will pay for all this more health care they desire. It's all too costly, as unemployment grows higher and wages drop, people have less money than ever for health care.

The one good thing ---the majority of people don't need much health care at all ---they may pay an awful lot for what others are using ----but at least the cuts to their health care aren't going to make them less healthy at all. Once the government takes over completely, you won't have a choice, you'll be on waiting lists for surgeries you need now, your tumor will metastasize by the time you have a biopsy. A government official, not your doctor, not even your insurance people will determine what kinds of tests you can have and how often.

115 posted on 06/15/2003 11:26:30 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: FITZ
SO true. That is what is happening in Canada. So many Canadians cross the border when time or diagnosis matters. I'll tell you an interesting story. I knew an ex-Canadian doctor who left due to socialized medicine. When he returned ten years later to visit an older doctor, a really excellent one, he found that the doctor's skills had deteriorated. A great doctor cannot be great under a government run medical program. Never forgot that story.
148 posted on 06/17/2003 1:19:26 AM PDT by The Westerner
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