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I am a Republican who is very conservative on social issues. I think the idea of one's employer paying the health insurance premium is idiotic. I think it's time to move on corcerninging this issue. Everyone gets something basic from the Government, and let the well to do buy supplements. If Charles Manson gets health care (and I think he should) then the 54 year old single mom making beds at Hotel 6 should also.

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Susan, I don't know who you think you're kidding. Left wing politicians have been using the healthcare issue to get people elected to office since 1948. Truman was the first, not Bill Clinton. Not even close! You're a law prof at USC. That means you know better. We can't afford the entitlements we have, much less add to them. If the Canadians are having difficulty affording single payer for thirty million people (and they don't really have a military), what makes you think we can afford it for three hundred million? I remember you saying Dukakis was the second coming in 1988. Bush beat the shit out of him, partly because of that moronic episode with the tank. And we're supposed to listen to YOU? I don't like McCain, but I think he's going to end up being President. WHY? Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. People in those states don't vote for left wing politicians. That's how it is. And there's nothing you can do about it. I grew up in both of those states. My father sold insurance and real estate in the suburbs of Akron for forty years. I know the place inside and out, and I'm telling you that Barack Obama will have his head handed to him. It's United States of America, not the United States of northern California, Massachusetts, northern Illinois, New England and Maryland. Time and time again, this ia lesson you refuse to learn.

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Susan, I wonder how you respond to someone driving around without car insurance and then after having an accident they begin to wonder why no insurance companies will give them a policy. Why , as the employer of this person, did you not get her insurance before she got ill? With that said, Id hope that each state would come up with a plan for those that cannot afford insurance. The large majority in Washington have no clue how to solve this problem.

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Susan I have been in the medical field since 1976 and I blame the law suits and lawyers for the cost of health care. Doctors have to pay high rates for malpractice and this raises their rates. Hospitals are faced with law suits all the time for situations that do not belong in the courts but lawyers encourage the patients to sue. Most hospitals find it cheaper to settle out of court then pursue cases even when not at fault because it is cheaper for them then fight in court. We don't need socialized medicine to bring down the cost we need less lawyers.

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I have been in the medical profession since 1978 and law suits and lawyers are the reason that medical insurance is so high. Malpractice insurance is so high that the doctors have to increase their rates and many excellent physicians are leaving the medical field. Hospitals are faced with law suits that have no reason to be in the courts but the lawyers know they will settle out of court because it is cheaper to settle out of court then fight in the legal system. We do not need socialized medicine we need less lawyers.

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Re: Kathaleen McCausland Sorry i printed 2 messages but I thought the 1st one did not get posted. Correction to the 2nd the year should be 1976. Kathaleen