MS>
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KU> subsidize it though their taxes and we all subsidize it through cos
KU> shifting.
MS>    "Cost shifting" is a hyped-up term in the health financing debate.
MS>    Every industry "cost shifts" its deadbeats.  If you get a loan from
MS>bank, rest assured that the bank cost shifts its bad accounts!
	But health is one of the few areas where you cost shift you good
payers.  BIG difference between paying for the dead beats and having to make 
up the .49 cents for every private insurance dollar that the Feds pay for 
MCaid and .58 cents for MCare.
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 * PW * But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
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