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Marty[_2_]

Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:10:17 -0400, Marty wrote:

wrote:

Next... how about health care!
Ah now don't do that, Dave is sure that if you had some kind of
universal health care the "po" folks, having nothing better to do with
their time would spend most of their time enjoying the untold comforts
and amusements to found in your nations emergency rooms and physicians
waiting rooms.

I'll start- saw a statistic a few weeks back that the "average" US
household spends about the same on electronics as on health care... I
bet this doesn't include employer-paid or gov't-supplied benefits, but
still it shows where the priority is.
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Actually I think that you spend about about $12,000 per capita on health
care, about the same that we do, except we all get it up here, not just
those who can afford it.

Don't know where you made up that figure, I ran a large, self insured,
employer based operation, and spent approximately $4000 per capita,on
an 80/20 cost sharing ratio with a demographic about twenty years of
age above the national average.

suggest you check your figures.

Factor in the Medicaid/Medicare budgets....

Cheers
Martin