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steven wrote:

> Universal Health Care Isn't Worth Our Freedom

An excellent article.

Socialist health care in the Netherlands makes my body everybody’s
business.

Moreover, because “health care” seems to justify all expenditures, every
sort of social difficulty is redefined as medical, including children
who have trouble keeping up (or down) in school, homelessness,
unemployment, family violence, and the list goes on and on.

As the “patient” is not to be burdened with paying bills, the “health
care provider” bills the insuring agency directly, with no one ever
doing any checking whether the services were actually rendered. The
system is fraught with stupendous levels of fraud.

The result is that the health treasury is empty. So more and more
treatments are being ousted from the public health care system and
channeled into private insurance. Back to where we began, except for the
freedom.

Mira




Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:36 pm

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Universal Health Care Isn't Worth Our Freedom, in the WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761945269242551.html What Is Antipsychiatry? over at...
steven
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Jul 15, 2009
5:56 pm

... An excellent article. Socialist health care in the Netherlands makes my body everybody’s business. Moreover, because “health care” seems to justify...
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Jul 15, 2009
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... Wow, that is an excellent way to put it. Our body's are no longer our own, but become part of the democratic process, politics determining what is best for...
Matt Dioguardi
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Jul 16, 2009
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... As Matt has noted, this is really well put, MIra. To generalize it - "Socialized health care in any country makes each person's body everyone else's...
Kitty Antonik Wakfer
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Jul 16, 2009
9:46 am

... A good article, except where Szasz uses the collective pronouns - "**Our** national conversation about curbing the cost of health care is crippled by the...
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