Healthcare in the US stinks!  We are 41st in longevity, 26th in infant 
mortality, first in STD's last in industrial nations in child healthcare, 
ETC. ETc.ETc.  We have the negative effect of draining off some of the 
brightest doctors from third world countries--whose countries  we 'BLESS' 
with our support of their oligarchies and dictatorships.  These doctors cut 
their teeth on America's poor and after making significant enough mistakes, 
the best of them that survive serve an ever decreasing small number of the 
remaining Americans who can still afford their services.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Off Topic, somthing you should know


Howard;

We have the best quality health care in the world.

People come from other countries to study here.

And, if somebody is stupid enough to work for minimum wage, that's on them.

I mean their are people in this country who just don't want to work and,
some people who do work want everything handed to them.

Present company excluded of course.


I mean look how hard we have to work so that the playing field is equal.


73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: Off Topic, somthing you should know


> It's not just the wages, it's the cost of health care.  America is the
> only
> industrialized where health care is a shared cost between the employer and
> employee.  That means, that our employers are competing with a huge chain
> around their necks that their foreign competitors don't have to carry.
> Minimum wage says nothing about Health care costs.  If you get $25,000 a
> year and have to pay $200 a pay check off the top, just for health care;
> you
> are still below poverty.  That often includes $1,500 per person
> deductibles
> and co-pays for Dr. visits and prescriptions.  That is unless the specific
> drug that works for you is not on your companies drug formulary.  Then you
> pay full price for it.
> Besides that, people can't afford the risk of changing jobs because they
> may
> have to go with out that crappie insurance, and a week in the hospital
> costing over $12,000 would bankrupt them.
>