RK> No! My complaint is that "profit" many times is the driver instead
 RK> the needs of the patient.
	It has always been thus..just like profit (defined as paying the
least you can for something)  has always been the driver of what the patient 
WANTS.
 BC> Who decides the needs of the patient?
RK>I always thought, naively perhaps, the MD's took an oath to make that
RK>decision.
	HOw about the patient????
 RK> Neither does turning health care over to the greed of insurance
 RK> companies "moralize" the service.
 BC> No one is being forced to engage the payor services of an "insuran
 BC> company".  Besides, one doesn't moralize a postulate.  One can sur
 BC> demoralize a situation, however.  This is akin to the fact that it
 BC> impossible for a government to raise everyone's life experiences t
 BC> that of the wealthy but it is quite possible for a government to l
 BC> virtually everyone's situation to that of poverty.
 
RK>Sounds like you've been sniffing too much gas.
	When in doubt..insult the person who is winning the argument.
 
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