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Whose Medical Decisions? Part II

Brian H Wrote: Aug 20, 2009 8:29 PM
if you exclude gunshot and car accident deaths from the stats world-wide. Americans live longer than Japanese, French, British, Swedes, or Germans, longer than tai-chi Okanowans, wise Latina crones in Central American mountains, or holy cow-worshipping gurus in Mumbai.

Sorry 'bout that.

When famed bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said: "Because that's where the money is."

For the same reason, it is as predictable as the sunrise that medical care for the elderly will be cut back under a government-controlled medical system. Because that's where the money is.

My experience is probably not very different from that of many other people in their seventies. My medical expenses in the past year have been more than in the first 40 years of my life-- and I did not spend one night in a hospital all...

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