Avgas in France has reached $7.50/gal !

How else
do you explain the fact that medical bills are a leading cause of
bankruptcies in this country?

You have pointed out something that needs to be addressed: It's all about
personal responsibility.

People in this country, for some strange reason, simply no longer feel
compelled to pay for the services or goods they have received.

Why, or how, this has evolved is irrelevant. However, it's become such a
terrible problem in America that Congress has been compelled to enact
legislation to restrict bankruptcies, lest the avalanche of defaults destroy
our legal and economic system.

Strangely, rather than blaming the people who have ripped off everyone
around them, you seem to be viewing this phenomenon from the wrong end of
the telescope. You seem to be describing the perpetrators as the victims,
and appear to describe the problem as if it was somehow the fault of someone
other than those people who have chosen not to pay their bills.

Stranger yet, you don't seem to realize that Americans who truly can't pay
their medical bills DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEM. If you are indigent, and sick,
you have no worries, as the state will pay your bills 100%.

It is only the people who have -- or did have, if they had exercised sound
judgment and purchased catastrophic health coverage -- the ability to pay
who now find themselves in jeopardy.

And before you tell us how "unaffordable" health coverage is, do a little
research. Catastrophic health care -- the kind of insurance that doesn't
pay for your broken leg, but DOES pick up everything over and above "x"
amount (you pick the amount) -- is easily affordable by the majority of
Americans without insurance.

The fact that some people choose to roll the dice and hope that they don't
get really sick -- and lose -- has somehow been characterized as a "health
care crisis" in America, when, in fact, these people should be put into the
same category as the "victims" who for years kept building homes along the
shores of the Mississippi River, not far from Iowa City.

Even the Feds, after rebuilding these homes every other year with
"emergency" tax money insurance bail-outs, grew weary of the flood scam, and
have now forced local taxpayers in riverfront communities to build levees
and dikes to protect their cities...

Check out AFLAC insurance. It's affordable, very specific, and for the
cost of a cable TV subscription will cover someone quite adequately in the
event of a catastrophic illness or injury -- the kind that most often drives
a person into bankruptcy.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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"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.