From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:13:58 -0500, Gene McAloon
 wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:01:14 -0400, Richard B. 
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:55:13 -0500, Gene McAloon
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> What health care system?  We don't have one.
>>
>> Really, you need to get out and about more!
>>
>> - Richard
>
> What we have got is a bunch of private entities, doctors, hospitals,
> insurance
> companies, HMOs all working independently and often at cross purposes,
> each
> trying to make as much profit as possible at public expense and leaving
> far too
> many out of the loop in the process. That is not a system. It is
> mishmash of
> greedy entrepreneurial and corporate types screwing everybody in sight
> for ever
> greater profit and the devil take the hindmost.
>
> If a corporation were to run its internal organization in such a manner,
> its
> execs would be out on their asses before they had a change to cash in
> their
> stock options.
>

Everything you said above applies to the production and sale of food, too. 
Would you like a National Food System?

--
Gary Wiltshire

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