On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 14:30:36 -0400, "Dee Dee" >
wrote:

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>"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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>> and now, if you don't have the money for insurance, you are completely
>> shit out of luck. this is better? or maybe you have the money and a
>> pre-existing condition? too bad, so sad.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>>
>
>When the insurance company tripled our rates per year and when medicare
>started taking out money for my medicare even though I already had
>insurance, I guess I could've said that we don't have money for insurance.
>This is the route that a lot of people take -- do they ever cancel their TV
>cable/dish/directTV, do they cut down on their Starbucks --
>
>But I do know there are people who just can't afford at all to buy any
>insurance at all; those that are on some kind of welfare and can check into
>the ER at any time for their health care.
>
>Then there are the ones in between, who are working their butts off and
>still can't pull it together for money for insurance, and are paying taxes
>for the others. Now this doesn't make me happy.
>
>Then there is the very poor, whom I can tell that they are because someone
>has put a tattoo down their butt for free I guess, they are smokin' and
>missing and rotten teeth. They probably wouldn't know how to check into an
>ER or how to sign up for assistance.
>
>Then there is the unfortunate. These are the ones I wouldn't mind having
>some sort of health care. How you gonna do it? Sign everyone up?
>
>Dee Dee
>
i just think a system of universal insurance would take care of that,
and people would not have to rely on charity. it can be done for less
money than we are spending now.

yes, you'd still have poor people, and it would still suck to be them,
but maybe they wouldn't be quite as sick.

your pal,
blake