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Re: i understand your point about the reference NaClH2O Send a noteboard - 30/09/2009 10:57:36 PM
How can my statement be true but as misleading as a flawed study?

Oh puleeze! You deliberately missed the whole point. (it's either that or you are too dense to write a coherent sentence). The point is that people are not "bleeding to death" but they are still dying because they can't afford adequate health care, and medication is part of health care.
I notice that you were very quick to point out the flaws in the 2K WHO study, but how about the current poll recently published by the New England Journal of Medicine? The one in which 70% of the physicians who responded said they were in favor of some form of "government option". This is a group that works on a daily basis with medicaid and medicare. My own personal physician is in favor of a public option, and he maintains a clinic in a blue collar section of the Bronx. His view is that between the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies and a "few bad apple doctors" (his words) the health insurance system in the US is very very badly broken. His wife is a physician too, a first generation Norwegian and he says she is absolutely appalled at the state of health care in the US. He said that she says (I've never talked to her directly) that the people of Norway would have rebelled and taken to the streets if they had to endure what we endure.

NaCl(it's worse than broke and it needs radical change)H2O +<img class=' />
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Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Government-Run Health Insurance Plan - 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM 806 Views
I just hope this doesn't squash all health-care reform attempts - 29/09/2009 09:12:15 PM 521 Views
It definitely needs work, but not scrapped..... - 29/09/2009 09:16:32 PM 526 Views
Polls are horrid evidence in my mind - 29/09/2009 09:32:58 PM 526 Views
Re: Polls are horrid evidence in my mind - 29/09/2009 10:12:26 PM 695 Views
From a government employee: Nice post *NM* - 29/09/2009 10:17:48 PM 226 Views
Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said - 29/09/2009 10:29:13 PM 472 Views
Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said - 29/09/2009 11:21:21 PM 574 Views
the difference is the focus of the organizations - 29/09/2009 11:44:56 PM 561 Views
Re: the difference is the focus of the organizations - 30/09/2009 12:40:38 AM 586 Views
Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO - 29/09/2009 11:44:58 PM 575 Views
Re: Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO - 30/09/2009 12:28:36 AM 558 Views
that the private sector has a long history of abusing both customer and employee *NM* - 30/09/2009 03:46:03 AM 216 Views
That's indisbutable - 30/09/2009 05:55:45 PM 548 Views
And that's all I'm saying - 30/09/2009 07:08:04 PM 501 Views
Re: And that's all I'm saying - 01/10/2009 03:10:02 AM 537 Views
It doesn't work at all - 30/09/2009 04:27:44 AM 582 Views
i have yet to see any evidence of malpractice insurance being a driving cost of health care - 30/09/2009 05:27:34 AM 591 Views
it's not THAT they pay malpractice - 30/09/2009 02:00:04 PM 451 Views
but doctors are *required* to buy malpractice insurance - 30/09/2009 04:13:08 PM 514 Views
that's completely moot to the situation malpractice insurance causes. - 30/09/2009 04:21:42 PM 472 Views
hooray, we're going to continue in mediocrity when it comes to our health - 29/09/2009 10:15:00 PM 580 Views
Yes, it's comforting to see that we are only rated 37th... - 29/09/2009 11:14:33 PM 492 Views
That is a decade old and horribly discredited citation - 29/09/2009 11:46:51 PM 664 Views
regardless, we still spend a lot more on health care while having too many uncovered people - 29/09/2009 11:56:24 PM 493 Views
My objection, in this context, is strictly about references - 30/09/2009 12:13:40 AM 495 Views
i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 12:54:25 AM 546 Views
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Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 10:57:36 PM 560 Views
Interesting... - 01/10/2009 12:09:35 AM 487 Views
So basically you are saying? - 01/10/2009 01:10:22 AM 454 Views
Basically... - 01/10/2009 02:52:51 AM 485 Views
Hooray! The government isn't going to get directly involved and make HC even worse! *NM* - 30/09/2009 01:03:50 AM 215 Views
yes, heaven forbid we take care of our own *NM* - 30/09/2009 04:13:50 PM 216 Views
looks l;ike they found some bipartisan spirit after all - 29/09/2009 10:35:55 PM 503 Views
Definitely wouldn't want to "denigrate" Health Care... - 30/09/2009 02:46:19 PM 466 Views

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