Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:38:38 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Tackling Concerns of Independent Workers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 03/25/13 22:27, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Because the medical insurance industry is to make money, not keep
>> anyone healthy, and they buy legislators, wholesale.
>
> Medical insurance is expensive because medical care is expensive.

Keith, I've told you this before: go look at *EVERY* *OTHER* first world
country. It's *FAR* less. What did I just see, thousands for an MRI
here, hundreds in France?

I've *had* health insurance everywhere I've worked. I've seen the
regular emails from corporate, where they had to change plans, because
the insurance co's were raising their rates 10%, 20%, I think even 30%
in *one* year. Then there was FL, in '04, when I ran out of COBRA, in in
two jumps, in 13 months, they wanted ONE HUNDRED PERCENT increase.

There is *ZERO* excuse for that... other than profits.
>
> If medical care for the average person costs more than the average
> person can afford, then no system of redistribution can solve the
> problem.  Not socialism, not capitalism, not chanting "Yes We Can."
> No system.  A way must be found to produce medical care less
> expensively.  *Much* less expensively.  Either that or concede that
> it's a luxury service intended only for the rich and powerful.

Sure, it can. The UK has a national healthcare system, where the doctors
and hospitals are gov't employees, and it's vastly less expensive. And
DO NOT tell me crap about how bad it is.

mark

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