"Yogi of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:40:45 -0400, "Eisboch"
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"H the K" wrote in message
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For everyone like your nephew's kid, there are 10 more kids who don't
get
any medical attention, or the wrong sort of medical attention or the
cheapest of "patches" medical attention, or medical attention long after
whatever problem there is has escalated into something a lot more
serious.


That's because health care and insurance has become unaffordable for many.
Make it more affordable for those that can work.

How?

By relieving those who pay for health insurance the costs of development
of
new equipment, procedures and drugs. *That* should be the role of the
government. If we can bail out wall street corporations, we can
subsidize
some of the medical industry.

Users of the health care system should pay for services rendered and not
the
development costs of those systems. Make the use cost affordable, not
free.
Of course those who cannot work to pay for their medical service needs
should be cared for by us, but not those who can pay, but don't or won't.

Now there's a good point and one that should be taken into account.

And there's an additional issue - Americans are actually paying for
costs of other nations for drug treatments. Did you know that I can
get Retuxin in France, paying for it myself, for about 1/4 the cost of
obtaining the same treatment in the US? In Germany, if I paid for it
myself, it's about 1/3 the cost. Same in Spain.

It's almost worth flying to France every couple of months to get it.

The only drawback is that it's France. :)

I do like Spain though.

But I don't speak Spanish.

And I don't like German food.

Rosetta Stone is about $250 to teach you Spanish.