--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Correction. > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > I am not debating national vs corporate health care, just > > > pointing out that the end-user costs are similar. > > > > Mine is a private policy. As I thought I said quite > > clearly, I am not covered by the French national > > system. A company sells me a health care policy > > for 320 Euros a month hoping to turn a *profit* on > > it at that price, given the cost of providing health > > care for someone my age for a year in France. > > That should have been 320 Euros a YEAR. Sorry.
Just a further comment, and one that spreads the GREED blame around a bit, it isn't just the health care professionals and the drug companies that keep the costs high in the US; it's the lawyers. I've read articles in France that point out that it costs the average M.D. in America over 100K per year for malpractice insurance. In France it costs them 5K. Bottom line is still GREED, whether it's manifested as greedy drug companies and HMOs and individual doctors, of greedy ambulance chasers and their clients. As with Edg and his rants about the environment and our shared responsibility for the trashbin that our planet has become, these days I'm interested in a fairly fundamental "measure" of a human being's humanity -- how much does he or she care about the rest of society or the rest of the world -- "the least of us," to use Christ's phrase. What is he or she willing to do or sacrifice so that his or her fellow humans -- all of them, no matter how poor -- can be provided with a minimum level of food, clothing, shelter, and health care? THAT indicates the level of a person's evolution to me, not whether he or she is "witnessing" of having "good experiences" spiritually or how good a "spiritual game" the person talks. It's the walk that indicates spirituality, not the talk.
