From: laelth@yabbs To: Deaska@yabbs Subject: Socialized Medicine Date: Wed Feb 9 22:02:30 1994 Deaska, You have all right to poke fun at us stupid Americans for the rotten state of our health insurance system. I'd much rather have a socialized system like yours. But this all-too-greedy nation will never wise up and guarantee health care to all its citizens. The doctors, pharmeceutical companies, and the insurance companies have a profitable racket here that they refuse to give up, so the people suffer. Ah ... the glories of the free market, huh? Modern capitalism at its pest, huh? Not a chance. All we've got is another case of the rich screwing the poor. No surprize that it's the poorest 25% of the people in America that don't have insurance. The rich do, and (no surprize) they're the ones getting fat off the current system. I wish that I could explain why America is the only nation in the industrialized world that doesn't guarantee free access to health care to all its citizens. I wish I could. Cheers~! -laelth