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razztazz · 08-08-2006, 01:00 PM

The only people totally insensate to costs and in a position to run up the cost of anything are the Rich. *Regular normal people, even those with insurance, cannot run up the cost of 18% fthe entire US economy. And these normal people generally do not get liposuction, nose jobs, and all that frivolous optional health care that pretty much only the rich can indugle in without reason or warrant... beacuse insurance doesn't cover it. *

When The Rich are denied the opportunity to get health care (read that "run up the cost" of health care) to the same extent everybody else is then he might be on to something. But really we should be taking the opposite tack. *Allowing everybody to access what they need without fear of going broke.

Secondly, why be horrified that more people can get medical care with insurance which drives up the cost? You must realize that big corporations and a few super duper rich people *have made a billions and billions of *dollars off of this insurace thing over the years. Why not brag about entrepreneurs and free markets and Big Business? And genuflect at how *insurance companies help people? Why blame the customer for using the product. *A product that, if it were not needed would have fallen on its face *faster that a pet rock. Find out *who's been making all the money off this racket all these years. It hasn't been the people trying to do teh prudent thing by taking care of their health care cost potential needs.

08-08-2006, 01:00 PM	#5
razztazz Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 351	The only people totally insensate to costs and in a position to run up the cost of anything are the Rich. Regular normal people, even those with insurance, cannot run up the cost of 18% fthe entire US economy. And these normal people generally do not get liposuction, nose jobs, and all that frivolous optional health care that pretty much only the rich can indugle in without reason or warrant... beacuse insurance doesn't cover it. When The Rich are denied the opportunity to get health care (read that "run up the cost" of health care) to the same extent everybody else is then he might be on to something. But really we should be taking the opposite tack. Allowing everybody to access what they need without fear of going broke. Secondly, why be horrified that more people can get medical care with insurance which drives up the cost? You must realize that big corporations and a few super duper rich people have made a billions and billions of dollars off of this insurace thing over the years. Why not brag about entrepreneurs and free markets and Big Business? And genuflect at how insurance companies help people? Why blame the customer for using the product. A product that, if it were not needed would have fallen on its face faster that a pet rock. Find out *who's been making all the money off this racket all these years. It hasn't been the people trying to do teh prudent thing by taking care of their health care cost potential needs.