-> Cindy Haglund wrote to Kevin Klement, "SCI" on 10-27-05 10:04

->  CH> 0n (25 Oct 05) Kevin Klement wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE...
->  KK> Sunday October 23 2005, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE writes to KEVIN KLEMENT:

->  > No fault insurance in Florida.
->  > She had collision only, $1,100.00

->  KK> So, she only had $1100.00 bucks of insurance.. wow.. thats f*all. Most
->  KK> people here in calgary have 1 million PL/PD (Public Liability/Public
->  KK> Damage), never heard of no fault insurance.

->  KK> I was hit once in a intersection, her fault. All together I got a new
->  KK> bike, leather jacket, helmet, lost time wages, pain and suffering.
->  KK> Can't remember the grand total.

->  > Anyway the rocking of a boat would hurt me in minutes.
->  > I've turned down quite a few boat rids in the last few
->  > years.

->  KK> Pain sucks hu.. and it's constipating..  Lots of meds.


->  CH>  In the US, Keven, the Current Administration's Stand On Health
->  CH> Care For the Poor (read: millions of people): is: "Pray".


-> They took out the "Dig a ditch" part?

-> For a fact, we too have abuses for health care, but the dispensation
-> is hard to find, even *if* you may need it. Our system operates on a
-> poverty level, where yours works by a profit model.

Pain relief for those in need has become vastly more difficult for
those with need due to the "war on drugs."

Used to be a M.D. G.P. could just prescribe.
Now you need a MRI, see an orthopedic surgeon and then go
to a pain management clinic to get relief.

I can't even afford the co-pays for all this.

OTOH an aquaintance of mine went to the emergency room 11
times last year for prescription drug overdoses!

The 12th time he went straight to the morgue.

An out and out drug addict not welcome in my home for years he had no
trouble at all getting all the prescription narcotics he wanted.
He was downing 40 - 60 narcotic pills a day.

I called last January and got "number no longer in service."
Immediately I went to www.sptimes.com and checking the obituaries
found he'd died Dec. 25, 2004.

I'd been expecting this for quite some time, he was 43.

I'd be grateful for the pills he took in two days for an entire
year's time span.

-> If our government saw three cents mark-up for a box of band-aids,
-> they'd make a work project to turn straw into wound dressings.
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