Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxm!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Seat-belt laws Message-ID: <241@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:14:38 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.241 Posted: Thu Feb 7 17:14:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 04:50:31 EST References: <321@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <630@unmvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 24 > > 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