On Feb 1, 12:36�pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in messagenews:q207q357n20igfc8gsb1hnj8ghqjruivv7@4ax .com...

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:18:57 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

The current US system is also highly rationed. The rich have access to
the best available care. The poor have no to very-limited access.

I love comments like this.

Unreal.

In my limited personal experience with health care issues, the only thing
anybody has ever asked me was for my BlueCross/BlueShield insurance card.
I've never been asked how much income I make or if I can pay personally for
"better" care.

Eisboch

If you were poor, you wouldn't have that insurance card.

A significant portion of your insurance premiums are used to reimburse
hospitals for emergency room treatment, sometimes of "sniffles" etc,
for poor families. The emergency room (of some hospitals) is the only
place these families know they will not be turned away for lack of
resources.

We are already delivering health care to the poor, in the most
conceivably expensive manner possible.

Don't want to pay for health care for poor folks? Maybe a $100 or so
of your current health care insurance premium already goes to that
purpose. Let's buy health services for the poor at a reasonable,
rather than a premium cost.