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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!fylz!ssc!ole!rwing!fnx!nazgul!bright
  2. From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
  3. Newsgroups: pnw.general
  4. Subject: Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you
  5. Message-ID: <1593@nazgul.UUCP>
  6. Date: 24 Jan 93 17:21:38 GMT
  7. References: <MS-C.727476472.377401575.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <1993Jan21.054210.14736@fylz.wa.com>
  8. Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
  9. Organization: Zortech, Seattle
  10. Lines: 10
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan21.054210.14736@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
  13. /This example has nothing to do with what we are talking about.  We are
  14. /not talking about government provided health care (doctors working for
  15. /the government, hospitals owned by the government, etc) we are talking
  16. /about having one insurance provider (logically the state or federal
  17. /government) paying the bills.  Quite different from how the VA works.
  18.  
  19. We already got a single insurer for retirement benefits. It's called
  20. Social Security. I've never heard anyone argue that SS saves money over
  21. private retirement insurance plans.
  22.