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	Name:	Yankee06
	Subject:	Healthcare costs
	Date:	10/17/2009 3:47:35 PM

MAJ,
-I did leave out Tort reform. Some days I'm for tort reform , other days I'm not. It might depend on the weather, ...who knows?
-Tort reform is tough for me, because on teh one hand I find it stupid that someone can get $4 million dollars form McDonalds for dropping hot coffee in her lap, while on the other hand, it is we the people who sit in those jury boxes. si-i-i-i-=igh, today is one of those days, I just can't decide of I'm for or against.
-In some of the posts above we should be clear to distinguish between government-run health care and government-payed health care. Medicare is government-payed health care. As inefficient as that is, add to it the inefficiencies of teh government actually running the nation's heathcare (hiring, firing, educating doctors; building hospitals; matching funds to needs; etc) then we will really have terrible health care.
-If that happens, and it seems to be on the way, then our public health system will be like our public school system. Medium to wealthy taxpayers will have to pay for poor healthcare for poorer people, while the wealthier have a seprate good health care system; just like many now pay taxes for a a poorer education system, while they then pay more money to send thier kids to private schools for a good education. I can never understand how liberals don't understand how that is going to happen. And of course our politician,... what will they do?...hmmmm, where do the senators and reps presently send thier kids, --not to DC schools!!!!!!