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by richhagen (richhagen (a t) Juno.com) on Wed Sep 17th, 2008 at 12:00:38 PM MST
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A bit off of topic, but I have notice that we have a few thousand people get shot here in Chicago each year, a majority are involved in criminal activity for a living and organized crime (street gangs) don't seem to offer health insurance to their membership. A multiple gunshot victim typically requires half a million in care I am told. They all get essentially free health care on the tax payers dime, and as near as I can figure, resources are allocated to cover this by getting part of the money from the government (taxpayers), and charging people who pay, either through insurance, or especially cash, more money for the services that they require. Rob Peter to pay for Paul comes to mind. You can add to that a legal system that awards people more money than they would have ever made had they worked there whole life for alleged malpractice whether legitimate or not, and again, through insurance premiums paid by doctors and hospitals, this gets passed on, and is ultimately paid by paying customers. We have a system where people don't have to share in their own misfortune - and can actually profit by it - and that encourages abuse. So in a sense, we already seem to have partially government health care and it stinks. So if you pay for back surgery, you are likely paying more than the actual costs.

Think how many additional solar panels or wind turbines we could put up if we had the money saved from a more efficient system. As our internal inefficiencies grow, our ability to confront larger problems such as the ongoing changes in the supply and demand of energy become increasingly diminished. Rich
'A Joule saved is a Joule made'
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