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echo: grand_rounds
to: ROBERT KEITH
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-06-14 23:16:00
subject: Re: HEALTH INSURANCE

RK>  MS> I could rephrase it:    
RK>  MS> "I give up.  Those of you are well-heeled and have _cars_ and 
RK> are
RK>  MS> provided for just don't give a damn about your fellow man".
RK>  MS> After all, most Americans have cars, just like most Americans 
RK> have
RK>  MS> some form of health insurance...does that mean the middle class 
RK> owes
RK>  MS> the rest both cars and health insurance?
RK> 
RK> Just what "form of health insurance" do most Americans have? Charity 
RK> at
RK> emergency rooms?
    No.
    With even Pres. Hillary claiming only 37,000,000 are uninsured in a 
population of around 6+ times as many, even she's admitting most are insured!
    The old are insured by Medicare, the poorest by Medicaid.  The middle 
class are insured mainly by workplace-based insurance.
    And don't ridicule ER charity as a form of de facto insurance.  It 
insures _access_ to health care for millions of working-class people, mostly 
in that 37,000,000 "uninsured".  It is so significant as a form of 
"insurance" that Greensboro's premier hospital has set up an outpatient 
clinic to keep the people involved from taking up valuable time from true 
emergency patients.
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