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In Article<4leh80$6hr@nntp.crl.com>, <plew@a.crl.com> writes:
> 
>In <4l03iu$5lb@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Sunny Yoon <network@primenet.com> 
>writes:
> : jdavidso@Xenon.stanford.edu (Jim Davidson) wrote:
> ::This is being portrayed as an altruistic gesture.  Think again.
> ::It's being sponsored by a bunch of people who are worried about
> ::being pushed awayre from the feeding trough.
> 
> 
> :If you notice, nurses and not doctors sponsor this bill,
> :as do consumer activists.  If you'd rather let 
> :"cost controls" be in place, I wouldn't
> :want to be in your shoes when you are in 
> :the emergency room, bleeding to death (as documented 
> :in numerous cases).  This is not a question of paying 
> :$20 more for a TV.  This is a matter of life and death.
> 
> 
> The nurses want a big cut of the "profits" and the bill will insure
> more nurses are "needed": the "bleeding to death in the emergency room"
> is scare tactics as it also means incompetent neglect by the emergency
> staff.  I've experienced a case where the nurse refused to help or lend
> an arm to lean on for an elderly woman to go from the parking lot to
> the hospital building and emergency room; the nurse just stood around
> and tried to look good at around 1:30 AM.
> 

	Unfortunatly, thanks to the money machine created by the combined
	efforts of the medical insurance industry and the medical care 
	industry, we have a glut of people in the medical care fields who
	are in it for the money first, and caring for thier fellow human
	comes a distant second, or third, or fourth... Back when we paid 
	doctors with coins and chickens, and they took whatever pay the
	patient	could afford, we had a higher quality of _person_ as a doctor.
	
	Now the 'greed factor' drives the entire cycle of higher medical 
	costs and higher premiums, and has for the past 35 years or so. Only
	now have the costs gotten so absurd that people are finally paying
	attention.

	-Matt