<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89658256-54e5-4d8e-a501-0581faec55cc/492B7D89-8794-4169-BF21-C9EF85230C22/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=261510755&blogId=515937239" href="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=261510755&blogId=515937239" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.myspace.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=261510755&blogId=515937239"><DIV>A friend of mine from the UK wrote and asked me to explain our health care "system", what reforms are being proposed, and what I would like to see implemented. The following is my response-turned-blog:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=261510755&blogId=515937239"><DIV>Our current "system" is so bizarre and barbaric, it isn't easy to explain to sensible and civilized people. Please, after reading my response, don't ask me how a civilized nation could blithely allow the murder so many of its people, I have no explanation.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=261510755&blogId=515937239"><DIV>One can pay cash for doctors and medicine if one is rich. Everyone else is pretty much screwed to varying degrees... </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=261510755&blogId=515937239"><DIV>Large numbers of people die every year due to being dumped. No one knows for sure just how many because there currently is no way to accurately track this. The health insurance companies work very hard to keep such data secret/ unavailable. I personally have known dozens this has happened to in the last decade alone.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=261510755&blogId=515937239"><DIV>And then there are the millions and millions who cannot afford health insurance.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/492B7D89-8794-4169-BF21-C9EF85230C22/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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