Michigan State U. Position still open

[David Ilvedson]

Sure, when I was young and on my own I didnt' have a health plan.   The young usually don't need one.   Do you have children Susan?
Most of us don't want to be wiped out by a unforeseen illness.  

>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.

Is this sort of like tuner-caused out of tuneness.   Those plastic elbows were fine until we had it tuned.   

>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?

We don't have a dental plan so I pay for it out of pocket...

>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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David I.