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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Seat-belt laws
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:14:38 EST
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> 
> Now if medical
> or insurance expenses were really the excuse, wouldn't there be an effort to
> prohibit smoking? 

There IS an effort to prohibit smoking. It runs into opposition by:
a) smokers, who claim that their "freedoms" would be abridged
b) tobacco farmers, who don't want to lose those profitable subsidies.

> Want to reduce medical costs for everybody?
> Get rid of medicare and deregulate the medical industry.
> 					--Cliff

The medical industry is *NOT* regulated. A doctor sets fees freely.
Fees are regulated by "the free market", i.e. if a doctor is too expensive
you call someone else. Medicare has put ceilings on reimbursement
in certain areas of health care, which have so far had little effect.

I am appalled at your casual attitude concerning medicare. Let's get rid
of it and the hell with the millions of people who lead active, productive
lives because of it. Nice, Nice. I say let's get rid of *you*, so as
to control the increasing nonsense in this world.

Marcel