[ccm-l] Employment and benefits manipulations

[Ronald Gross]

Ken,
Once again, I am in agreement 100% with your assessment.
Ron 

>>> <KMATTOX at aol.com> 4/5/2007 5:01 PM >>>

In a message dated 4/5/2007 3:48:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
thoran at sarah.br writes:

Of the  30 -40 million US uninsured how many are the fast driving drug

addicts, or  lazy, obese cigarette smokers whom you abhor and how many
of them are 
ordinary  folks, the people who are apparently easy for you to dismiss
, the   
working poor, in jobs that need filling but just dońt get paid very
well ,  
certainly not enough to part with 1,200 a month...  maybe the 
receptionist or 
the cleaner or the guy in the parking garage, people who just  do NOT
appear 
on your radar because they do NOT read a novel a week, do NOT  know the
right 
people, do NOT belong to the right organizations, did NOT go to  the
best 
schools. Never mind Dr. Crippens friend but what about the disabled, 
the folks in 
the other car, the unemployed, the unemployable, good cannon  fodder
but No 
FREE LUNCH. Never mind that the free lunches are served up in 
corporate board 
rooms every where, provided by the moms and pops investing in  the
great 
enterprises that won't provide health  insurance.



In every society, and especially at the local level, provisions are
made  for 
the kind of persons you cite above.   Many local good examples  exist. 
 
These same individuals do not have state sponsored lawyer  aid, housing
aid, 
church aid, food aid, family counseling, cell phones,  etc.   Why must
or should 
health care be any different.    MANY MANY of the persons you cite
above CHOOSE 
to not have health dollars  available in order to pay for cell phones,
send 
money back to family in another  country, have a late model car, drink
alcohol 
every day, go to cock fights, and  have somewhat expensive watches and
designer 
glasses.   I see them  every day, and then they expect FREE medical
care.   
WRONG.  One  cannot have it both ways.    If they go to church, the
priest  
EXPECTS them to put something in the collection plate and even pay for
some of  
their absolution by giving to the church (up to and greater than 10% of
their  
income).   If they need to go to court, they must pay for an  attorney.
   
 
I have NO problem for fairness with a prorated calculation of a
discounted  
bill based on disability, inability to work (real, and not just a
matter of a  
created social welfare state to pay someone NOT to work), and a feeling
of  
responsibility for ones own services, whatever they might be.  It is
not  the 
state or the employers responsibility to assure that everyone is
provided  all 
creature comforts from the cradle to the grave.  That is a family and 
an 
individual responsibility.  The governmental responsibility is to 
protect, NOT 
PROVIDE.    
 
We in every society MUST also address the HUGE profits from insurance 

companies, HMOs, and hospitals whose overhead and payments to upper
level  
management and stockholders are obscene.    The persons who have  been
unfairly 
burdened with the financing of individual health care has become  the
employer, and 
that is the most unfair of all  systems.     
 
Kenneth L. Mattox, MD
Houston



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