From: laelth@yabbs
To: minutemn@yabbs
Subject: re: Socialized Medicine
Date: Thu Feb 10 12:00:20 1994
My, my, temper, temper, Minuteman:
    I can see I've got you a little aggrivated.  Must mean that I made a 
good point when I said that you were defending my position.  And you were. 
 It's a fact, the actual costs of providing health care would GO DOWN in a 
socialized system because it would be tougher to sue doctors for 
malpractice (not impossible, just very hard).  Only the most blatant of 
all malpractice cases would even go to court, so more of our national 
health-care dollar would go directly to health care instead of the legal 
industry.  Of course, taxes would have to go up to pay for it, but the 
cost of private insurance would evaporate.  The question is this:  would 
you rather support the insurance companies, and the lawyers, or would
you prefer your money to be spent almost exclusively on health care?
Call me crazy, but I'd prefer that my money be spent on health
care, rather than on supporting  fat lawyers and insurance adjusters.
    Now, about your statistics.  Who are you kidding?  Only 2% of 
Americans are REALLY without health-care insurance?  This kind of 
statement is very popular these days.  In fact, the Republican National 
Committee has all Republicans right now running around saying, "There is 
no health-care crisis."  Are you one of these?  You sound like George Bush 
in 1992 saying, "There is no recession."  Basically, you just don't get 
it. No doubt, YOU have health-coverage.  Why should you care if a quarter 
of the people in America don't? 

   Not yet weary from beating my haed against your brick wall,

    -laelth