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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Rick wrote:
So, to sum this up, because of one child, we should turn over the
trillions of dollars Americans pay for health care to the government so
that they can dole it out?
No, it was supposed to cover millions of children. The one child is an
example of how such a program can help a poor family.
Oddly, I listen to a fair amount of right-wing propoganda, I've this is
the first mention of Graeme Frost I've heard. What has been said to
smear the kid?
See the article below. The smearing is more of his family than of the kid
himself.
Lastly, I tend to align with Scott here. I'm vehemently opposed to
socialized health care for adults, but would be fully supportive of
socializing health care for children under the age of 18 *if* it were
mandatory (i.e., every kid, not just the poor ones).
OK. I'm definitely in favor of some amount of government-funded health
care for everyone. For example, vaccinations should be freely available
to anyone living in or even visiting the US. There are many other small
things that are highly cost effective to provide. The thing we cannot
afford to do is to offer the most expensive and highly experimental
treatments to everyone. There has to be a limit on what the government
will provide. If there is no limit on expenditures, we'll be robbed
blind!
Another thing to worry about -- my insurance company was billed $3500 for
my daughter's recent hospital stay (she's fine), but the hospital said
that the cost was $20,000. They aren't charging me a thing. The point
is, the hospital would charge an uninsured person $20,000 for the same
services that it charges my insurance company $3,500 for. The insurance
company has a lot of power and can force lower rates. So the uninsured
are rendered powerless and the hospitals will screw them, badly, or not
treat them at all.
Mike
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:41 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/opinion/12krugman.html
N.Y. Times
October 12, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Sliming Graeme Frost
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Two weeks ago, the Democratic response to President Bush's weekly radio
address was delivered by a 12-year-old, Graeme Frost. Graeme, who along
with his sister received severe brain injuries in a 2004 car crash and
continues to need physical therapy, is a beneficiary of the State
Children's Health Insurance Program. Mr. Bush has vetoed a bipartisan bill
that would have expanded that program to cover millions of children who
would otherwise have been uninsured.
<snip>
Rick
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city's most infamous breakfast food into my maw. The tiny flakes snapped
and popped, like the fingers of a mob snitch after they found 'im. It
wasn't good cereal. But it was better than a gut fulla led."
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