--- In andylang@yahoogroups.com, "Chirolas" <chirolas@...> wrote:
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> seriously undermine its ability to make money??? L
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> God bless - they are allowed to exist in the Obama plan as insurance
> companies, rather than being forced to convert to claims payment
> administering service companies. The fact is the country can not afford
> their increasing profit needs. That is why we need reform.
>

I thought these guys loved competition.

Another interesting article from "The New Yorker":

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=\
all

EXCERPT:
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One afternoon in McAllen, I rode down McColl Road with Lester Dyke, the cardiac
surgeon, and we passed a series of office plazas that seemed to be nothing but
home-health agencies, imaging centers, and medical-equipment stores.

"Medicine has become a pig trough here," he muttered.

Dyke is among the few vocal critics of what's happened in McAllen. "We took a
wrong turn when doctors stopped being doctors and became businessmen," he said.
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