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MS>    You're comparing apples and T-bone.  This isn't even comparing appl
MS>and oranges.
MS>    HMOs aren't monopolies.  Policyholders that don't like the rationin
MS>are free to spend their own money (at their own cost) getting care from
MS>doctor they want, without waiting lines like Canada, without care limit
MS>like England not paying for dialysis for those over a certain age.  HMO
MS>cannot even force you to stay a customer...you are free to seek another
MS>where you will not be in a HMO as part of workplace health care coverag
MS>and you then will not be paying for the HMO.
	And employers are REQUIRED by law to offer a number of different
types of programs. (BTW: this law was originally passed to make sure HMOs 
were offered. I would have to look it up again, but I think this was passed 
during Nixon's time in office.
MS>    Canadians and Englishmen are not free to quit paying the national 
MS>health-care system.  Pres. Hillary wanted you jailed if you tried to av
MS>waiting lines by paying a doctor at your own expense.  The government i
MS>exactly what no HMO can be: a monopoly that you cannot leave, except by
MS>emigration!
	They can come to the US if they want to pay for it..
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