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- From: markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier)
- Subject: Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:44:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184423.1113@ssc.com>
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- Bill Campbell (bill@Celestial.COM) wrote:
- : Unfortunately the free market doesn't really apply to health care
- : in the U.S. where ``health insurance'' is really a bill paying
- : function where we pay the insurance companies instead of paying
- : for routine health car ourselves.
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- In addition, health care is considered a fringe benefit of employment.
- So employers shield employees from the mental strain of figuring out
- how to pay their (the employees) own bills. We'd be better off
- if employer provided health care payments were banned and the end
- user had to figure out how to pay for it.
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- Mark Zenier markz@ssc.wa.com
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