Replying to a message of JIM WELLER to BILL SWISHER:

 BS>> As an aside for the medicare.  In Anchorage the newspaper
 BS>> reported less than 80 GP's willing to take "new" medicare
 BS>> patients

 BS>> The  excuse was that medicare payments were inadequate for
 BS>> them to maintain their practice, and as you know medicare
 BS>> providers aren't allowed to directly bill patients to
 BS>> cover that deficit.

 BS>> the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale was going to start refusing
 BS>> medicare patients.  That's the future of medical care in
 BS>> the US: If you have medical insurance or cash you get
 BS>> service.

 JW> I see that as a major flaw in your system. Universal health
 JW> care IS expensive and I know you guys hate taxes but it is
 JW> the humane and civilized route to take.

Then figure out how to get the American people to accept a fifty percent or more
hike in their income taxes.

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