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echo: grand_rounds
to: ROBERT KEITH
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-06-03 22:26:00
subject: Re: HEALTH INSURANCE

RK> Health care is one of them.
RK> 
RK>  MS> Really?  America has had health care for its working-age
RK>  MS> population for decades without federal involvement other than 
RK> Medicaid
RK>  MS> for the poor, and it had health care for many decades without 
RK> federal
RK>  MS> involvement at all...Medicare not till 1965 and Medicaid not 
RK> until
RK>  MS> reasonably recent either. 
RK> 
RK> More disingenuous posting. There was no health care for the 
RK> working-age
RK> population until after WWII. How do I know? I belonged to  that
RK> population before, and after WWII. Health care was not offered until 
RK> it was
RK> necessary to attract employees during the boom years.
    I didn't say "health care provided by a governmental agency" or 
"employer-provided health care".  
    I just said America had "health care for its working-age population".  
That was overwhelmingly self-funded, just as it is today in saying America 
has cars for its working age population.  Saying America has cars for its 
working-age population implies neither a government-funded program to buy 
everyone a car nor that most workers get cars as a workplace benefit.
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