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   XPost: alt.politics.democrats   
   From: hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   In article <52jqm.2078$tl3.547@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,   
   Mike   wrote:   
   >Other developed countries do not have health *insurance*,   
   >they have health service. As long as the debate is about   
   >health insurance (that is, as long as the debate is shaped   
   >by insurance industry) there won't be a solution.   
      
   There is little real insurance; if there was, there   
   would be few of the present bankruptcies from health   
   care costs.   
      
   The only reason I have the present type of "insurance"   
   is that my employer essentially demands it of all   
   employees except those covered by spousal insurance.   
   I have a few choices, but that is all.  Before I came   
   here, I only had major medical.   
      
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