Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
BAR wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Feb 1, 12:25�pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
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.

Being able to access health care only at the emergency room of certain
hospitals constitutes very limited access. I can't imagine why my
comment about the poor is unreasonable.

Poor example Chuck. The very best cars are rationed. The very best
food is rationed. I could go on and on.

You are a person of substantial means, Tom. I hope you have access to
the best available care.

Chuck, I can't afford to buy the $495,000 Mercedes I saw at the auto
show last week. Can you spare a couple of hundred thousand?

Neither portion of the statement is unreal, so how can the total
statement be unreal?

How much of your time and money do you donate to provided the
underfunded "access" to health care?


BAR,
You already are paying for them to have access to health care, the only
problem is you are paying way to much money to give them bad access. We
can pay less money by providing health care outside of the emergency
room. I like the MA program where everyone must have health insurance.
It provides a group plan for those who are not covered by a group plan
at work. If the person really can not afford it, not just that they
don't think they need it or would rather have cable and/or a new car,
they are subsidized, but everyone must pay for healthcare. This is a
much cheaper way for all of us.

The problem is that people will still show up at the emergency room with
the sniffles and they will still be seen.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/s..._460735_1.html

Ah, I work for a Mass. headquartered company. I know about the
escalating health care costs and what the company is doing to reduce costs.