Michigan State U. Position still open

[Greg Newell]

Susan,
         Some very astute observations here! Some in my family are dropping 
their health coverages preferring instead to cover themselves should 
anything go wrong. I agree about the insuring against predictable loss. 
Everyone will use the system at some time so it really doesn't fit the 
description for "insurance" does it.

best,
Greg



At 03:56 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote:
>At 11:43 AM 8/5/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>This is on topic because this discussion is about how piano technicians 
>>are held hostage by our health care system.
>
>I "just say no." Yes, I can hear you from here -- all the reasons you MUST 
>be insured!
>
>Is anyone else old enough to remember when no one had health insurance, 
>and we didn't miss it? It's not as if insurance could keep you from 
>getting sick -- all it does is pay out money when you are sick.
>
>Has anyone noticed how many doctor-caused diseases and medical problems 
>are out there? How many times does going to a doctor give someone a false 
>sense of security, when really all they got was a palliative, allowing the 
>disease process to continue unchecked?
>
>Well, those are my rationalizations, anyway, but I have done without 
>health insurance since I left Canada in 1980. So far, I'm still alive and 
>kicking. If I break a tooth, I get it fixed. I went to a naturopath and 
>got a few blood tests once, and a bone scan. Six years ago, I had 113% of 
>a normal young person's bone density. I stopped worrying about 
>osteoporosis, and see no reason to get tested again. Other than that, I've 
>let doctors do their thing, but without my assistance.
>
>I think that the whole system is about to collapse of its own weight. As 
>soon as most people decided that health insurance was indispensable, the 
>prices of services multiplied. It's the insurance which is making 
>everything so unaffordable. I particularly dislike insuring customary and 
>routine services, such as routine dental work. Insurance should be for the 
>unfortunate and unpredictable disasters which happen to a few people, but 
>not everyone. For instance, houses are insured against fire. The few that 
>burn are paid for by the premiums from the many which do not.  With health 
>insurance, everyone is going to use the services to a greater or lesser 
>degree, so they are subsidizing a huge infrastructure to insure for a 
>predictable loss.
>
>I think that health insurance should be for catastrophic losses, only; but 
>I see no hope that the general public will go along with that.
>
>Susan Kline
>
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Greg Newell
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