In a message dated 2/20/00 3:53:19 PM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

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>  Issodos, you seem determined not to understand what I am writing about.
>  I chose antibiotic resistance to begin to discuss the dysfunctional
>  capitalist  medical system.

    Actually, you seem incapable of presenting a cogent presentation of what
it is you are attempting to write about.  You might first present evidence,
or reasoning, for your claim that the 'capitalist medical system' is
"dysfunctional."  You may also wish to inform us of what it is you consider
to be included in the term "capitalist medical system."

    I just added a comment about mental
>  health, and how capitalism and it's "care" systems produce mental
>  illness, rather than find cures for it.<snip>

    You made a simplistic claim.  Now back it up with evidence or reasoning.

>  Let me get you to consider, for a brief moment, the key to what I'm
>  writing about.      Medicine is more than what is behind a Dr.'s office,
>  or inside hospital walls.     It is more than tech or chemistry.
>  There, try to go on from here.

   Now you want me to explain what it is you are trying to say, or more
accurately, provide a definition for your use of the word "medicine."  Okay.
You are suggesting that medicine is not only reactive, but also proactive.
Taking action to prevent illness in the first place is more efficient that
having to treat it later.  Unfortunately, you are also attempting to suggest
that soot from a socialist smokestake is pristine while soot from a
capitalist smokestake is intentionally malevolent.  Of course, one would have
to question whether there is any damage occuring from the effluent of modern
industry -- capitalist or socialist.  Got any proof, Fella?
>
>  As for Cuba and HIV.     Have you considered where you would be most
>  likely to get infected with HIV, and even pass it on to your family?
>  No, I guess not.

    Which continent, Fella?  Africa would be a heterosexual encounter, and
America would be through a homosexual encounter, and Asia I am not sure
about.  These would be the MOST likely avenues.  Other avenues make up a
smaller percentage of infectious paths.  So, does the socialist paradise of
Cuba provide a better response to AIDS sufferers than the "US capitalist
medical system?"

>  Would ideologues and fellas like you rather be health workers in the US,
>  or in Cuba?      Before you answer with one of your uninformed vacuous
>  comments, consider yourself juggling needles in the dark in a hospital
>  speedup situation.    Get the picture now?

   Let me see, an evil US health worker or a saintly Cubano\a health worker?
I guess I would have to first ask why they are juggling needles in the
dark.;-)

    I'll give you another chance. How would Tony make a "healthy nation?"

Yours,
Issodhos