Avgas in France has reached $7.50/gal !

Jay Honeck wrote:

Yeah, that's the side of my family no one talks about...

We all have *some* skeletons in our closets...

Yep -- in *my* family, nobody talks about the Schwarzwalders. At least, not
since WWII.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

It may be true that hospitals provide emergency care without first
asking for insurance. However, they will ask for it afterwards. How else
do you explain the fact that medical bills are a leading cause of
bankruptcies in this country?



"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:34A7e.14321$xL4.3090@attbi_s72:

But I like to be brought to the ER after an accident ASAP and beeing
searched
for an insurance card _after_ the emergency treatment.

Martin, I don't know what kind of propaganda they've been feeding you
in Austria, but in America no one cares about who's paying for the
bills here until after the emergency medical services are rendered.

And, in fact, we *do* have nationalized health care in this country
for the indigent. Those who deny this fact clearly have no concept of
how our medical system works. (Mary's "other" job is doing
statistical computer analysis for a major health care provider, and
she spent 20 years as a Medical Technologist "in the trenches" drawing
blood, etc. She analyzes budgets, and gets to see, first hand, how
Medicare and other government programs pay 100% of health care costs
for anyone who walks in the door without insurance..)

Could the system be set up in a more efficient way? Hell, yes. But
it *is* functioning, and our health care *is* quite excellent.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 02:59:14 GMT, George Patterson wrote:

Yeah, that's the side of my family no one talks about...

We all have *some* skeletons in our closets...

Yep -- in *my* family, nobody talks about the Schwarzwalders. At least, not
since WWII.

mabe they fought against the system back then and you don't know about
having little heroes in your family.

George Patterson

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Andrew Sarangan wrote:

It may be true that hospitals provide emergency care without first
asking for insurance. However, they will ask for it afterwards. How else
do you explain the fact that medical bills are a leading cause of
bankruptcies in this country?

how about because medical care costs can be the single largest
expensive in someone's life?

--
Bob Noel
looking for a sig the lawyers will like

"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
1...

It may be true that hospitals provide emergency care without first
asking for insurance. However, they will ask for it afterwards. How else
do you explain the fact that medical bills are a leading cause of
bankruptcies in this country?

There's some logic in that statement...it's just very well hidden.

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Andrew Sarangan wrote:

It may be true that hospitals provide emergency care without first
asking for insurance. However, they will ask for it afterwards. How else
do you explain the fact that medical bills are a leading cause of
bankruptcies in this country?

how about because medical care costs can be the single largest
expensive in someone's life?

And the fact that very few people carry catastrophic coverage any more,
figuring that $10 doctor visits are a better alternative than covering the
$250-500K situations.

Kinda like getting car insurance to cover oil changes, but limiting coverage
to $1000 and getting waxed when your $25,000 car gets totaled.

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
...
Dylan Smith writes:

Why must so many threads in this NG turn into vitriolic political
rants?

Because one very ignorant poster repeatedly insults large blocks of
people by country of origin.

Why don't you just filter him out, if his ignorance bothers you so?

For the same reason that, if you're sitting at a dinner table and someone
starts gratuitiously disparaging the people next to you, you would probably
want to speak in their defense, rather than just acquiescing in silence.

--Gary

By responding, it just fuels the fire.
--
Jim in NC

"Gary Drescher" writes:

Why don't you just filter him out, if his ignorance bothers you so?

For the same reason that, if you're sitting at a dinner table and someone
starts gratuitiously disparaging the people next to you, you would probably
want to speak in their defense, rather than just acquiescing in silence.

Thank you.

In his attitude towards other groups, Jay is not far from the bigots
who disparage ethnic groups (blacks, hispanics, etc.) As a society we
have generally learned over the years that stereotyping and
name-calling are a Bad Thing, first for the individuals in the groups,
and then for all the rest of us. It drags all of us down. It's not
what the American experiment was and is about.

On a personal level, the best vacation I ever had was my trip to
Europe, where my wife and I visited only France. Our nephew married a
French girl and we went to their wedding. We had a fantastic time,
including a trip to a local aéroport where I logged a half hour in an
airplane. The instructor refused to accept any payment for his time
and the club members were gracious and friendly. Virtually everybody
we me in our 20 days there was helpful. France is a beautiful
country, its engineers some of the best in the world, the French
people are not fat, boastful slobs.

So, no, I'm not going to remain silent when some ignorant (and proud
of it) mid-west yahoo vomits on this newsgroup.

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
...
So, no, I'm not going to remain silent when some ignorant (and proud
of it) mid-west yahoo vomits on this newsgroup.

Although stereotyping mid-westerners is also undesirable.

--Gary

On 16 Apr 2005 10:15:37 -0700, Bob Fry
wrote in
::

On a personal level, the best vacation I ever had was my trip to
Europe, where my wife and I visited only France.

You speak with the wisdom of a cosmopolitan traveler. I suspect that
Mr. Honeck has never stepped foot in France or anywhere else in
Europe, else how can his provincial attitude be explained?