From: "Jeff Shultz" 


"Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l"  wrote
in message news:3922d511{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote
in message
> news:4f04is4sgmtb8iq7tb0uvs050qn8nq4m50{at}4ax.com...
> > On Tue, 16 May 2000 13:04:55 -0400, John Beamish

> > wrote:
> > .....
> > >In the US the inability to pay rations health care.  Why shouldn't
> > >some other form of health care rationing be acceptable to you?  (Oh,
> > >in case you missed it -- and I really rather suspect you
didn't  --
> > >that was a rhetorical question.)
> > .....
> > Sure, and the inability to pay for caviar rations caviar.
> >
> > I think that existing health insurance and government programs have
> > gone a long way toward elevating prices payed by the uninsured who
> > don't qualify for government programs.
>
> A very good point.  When I told Markus about the rates at Kaiser
(including
> the co-pay), he said, "Is THAT all it is? Then why this big deal about
> health care?" (I believe I've mentioned that here before....)
>
> It would be nice for people to check the prices before complaining. But
then
> again, no matter how low it was they would complain that they couldn't
play
> the lottery with that money....

I've got Kaiser here (personal coverage). $123/mo, $15 copay and
prescriptions, $3 lab fee.
 I don't mind at all... it's disaster insurance, which has already proven
it's usefulness.

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