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echo: grand_rounds
to: BUCKY CARR
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-07-15 23:13:00
subject: Re: HEALTH INSURANCE

BC>  KU>    But health is one of the few areas where you cost shift you 
BC> good
BC>  KU> payers.  BIG difference between paying for the dead beats and 
BC> having
BC>  KU> to make up the .49 cents for every private insurance dollar that 
BC> the
BC>  KU> Feds pay for MCaid and .58 cents for MCare.
BC> 
BC> If the fed/state didn't have so many laws prohibiting charging what 
BC> the
BC> service is worth, there wouldn't be the cost shifting.
    He's talking the Hillarycare myth, and you're ignoring that.
    Cost-shifting happens in _all_ industries.  Just who does Pres. Hillary 
think pays the banks for all the bad debt?  Just who does Pres. Hillary think 
pays the costs of shoplifting at KMarts?
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