Re: Public vs private healthcare (was: RE: [CNN] Bush 2,909,465; Gore 2,907,7...

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From: Grlygrl201@aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 13:31:25 PST


In a message dated 11/18/00 2:19:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mattj@newsblip.com writes:

<< Everyone would be
 covered with basic health care, but if you wanted a non-essential MRI for
 your knee, you could pay for it yourself if you had the money[4]. >>

In a message dated 11/18/00 2:19:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mattj@newsblip.com writes:

<< Everyone would be
 covered with basic health care, but if you wanted a non-essential MRI for
 your knee, you could pay for it yourself if you had the money[4].
 
>>

one problem is with who defines "basic" and "non-essential" - the doctors or
the payor? as doctors continue to find loopholes to get coverage for their
patients (usually thru creative diagnoses) payors continue to narrow the
definition.

and there's the the spiraling cost of prescription meds yet. there's class
warfare: one side absolutely opposed to regulation and one side absolutely
demanding it. finding middle ground will be the highest mandate of the next
president. i just don't see one.


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