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echo: grand_rounds
to: ROBERT KEITH
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-06-10 22:08:00
subject: Re: HEALTH INSURANCE

RK>  RK> coming election. The politicos will offer some kind of hybrid 
RK> health 
RK>  RK> care
RK>  RK> because they are considering only their own reelection and will 
RK> be 
RK>  RK> after
RK>  RK> the votes of the millions who  will be voting that have NO 
RK> health 
RK>  RK> care
RK> 
RK>  MS> Accepting Pres. Hillary's claim that there are "37 million
RK>  MS> uninsured", there are tens of millions more who are insured.  
RK> 
RK> Dream on if you believe that. It was defeated by the Republicans 
    I'm just quoting her statistics.
RK>  MS> You mean the people "that have no health _insurance_", not that
RK>  MS> have no health _care_.  There's a big difference.
RK>  MS> The local hospitals in Greensboro, NC (where I practice law) do 
RK> a
RK>  MS> small fortune worth of de facto freebie care.  People just 
RK> default on
RK>  MS> the bills, and they're rarely recovered.  That means that there 
RK> is a
RK>  MS> very large no-cost care system for the working poor.
RK> 
RK> Now it's becoming clear. As long as you are taken care of, you could 
RK> care
RK> less about those who don't have and can't afford their own health 
RK> care.
    Those people you're trying to guilt-trip me about get health _care_ free 
in fact, though without insurance.  Quit trying to tell us these people are 
in Calcutta.
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