OOPS I meant "patient." It is heretical in some circles to denounce public health programs but they have never been adequate. Medicare omits prescription drugs, etc. This is not to say that I am for the profit making health care industry as the solution, only to dis-illusion some that our public system is as good as those who cling to the welfare state as having provided a just solution. It has not SO far. marta
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>The TV Nation story is fun and right on, but it is too simple to just say
>that those without insurance have no health care-- they have bad,
>irrationally provided health care, which costs everyone way too much, but
>the rhetoric of "no health care" is unconvincing because people know it's
>not completely true. The poor get onto Medicaid -- as long as they don't
>work hard and get them poorly paying job that rewards them by taking away
>their Medicaid.
But so many doctors won't take Medicaid that it makes it kind of a lie. Further, Medicaid is constantly narrowed. For instance, the budget in CA is in trouble so the first thing Grey Davis (Gov) does is cut optional Medicaid services and reduces the measley payment docs receive for seeing a Medicaid patient. You may as well not have any insurance. Marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org --