On 4/26/07 1:39 AM, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329789179-110878,00.html
You and Naomi Wolf are spitting into the wind -- this has been going on for half a century. Intense effort has slowed it, but nothing can stop it. One step was left out: make the people helplessly dependent. The most conspicuous dependency scheme is health care, and we have gone about making the populace dependent so cleverly that no-one can see a connection to any government -- indeed, we are wailing for the federal government to bail us out of this mess! What we did was to so structure the tax laws that it was much cheaper for an employer to provide health care to his employees than to pay them enough to buy their own health care. We started out with insurance against catastrophic expenses, then sneakily switched to maintenance contracts, all the while still calling it "insurance". As soon as getting your medical care through your employer became normal, the system adjusted itself, without any extra trouble, to exclude the "uninsured". And now we have "insurance" which *doesn't* cover unexpected events! -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
