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From: Wes Groleau 
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Jonathan Smith wrote:
> The system works well BECAUSE it is NOT single payer.  In the US, the
> poor are not excluded.  The unemployed are not excluded either - there
> is COBRA.

COBRA ?!?  Yes, when I was laid off, I was offered the chance
to maintain substantially the same coverage for about thirteen
hundred dollars a month.  What an offer!  For a little bit less
than the income I _no_longer_have_ I can keep a plan that pays
80% of my medical bills.  And I get to keep it for eighteen months.
(Meaning that IF I had been able to afford it, it would be ending
two months from now.)

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Wes Groleau

   Armchair Activism: http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html