For others on the list who may have an interest in this story…….Cody in Austin
From: Cody [mailto:c...@austin.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:15 PM To: 'suerdlagpunga' Subject: RE: [TMIC] From hot, sticky, uncomfortable Essex Dalton, I don’t think you have your facts straight on the little boy. You are right this is a tragedy and a disgrace that this could happen anywhere in America. This incident occurred in Maryland not Louisiana. See the link below. <http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/030807/prinnew190705_32325.shtml> http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/030807/prinnew190705_32325.shtml Cody in Austin From: suerdlagpunga [mailto:suerdlagpu...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 8:08 PM To: Cody Subject: RE: [TMIC] From hot, sticky, uncomfortable Essex I used to live in Texas; I'm am Aggie. Texss had a lot of good proframs. I benefited from good medical programs including Texas paying for some of my undergraduate time at A&M. But Louisiana is different. I will try to find that story because it was shocking. -------- Original message -------- From: Cody <c...@austin.rr.com> Date: 07/16/2013 18:50 (GMT-05:00) To: 'Dalton Garis' <malugss...@gmail.com>,TMIC <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: RE: [TMIC] From hot, sticky, uncomfortable Essex Dalton, I just refuse to believe the story about the little boy who died from a Sepses infection was only attributable to not having $86.00 to be treated by a dentist. If they didn’t have the $86.00 for the dentist how did they have money for the medical treatment. I don’t know about medical services in Louisiana or New York but in Texas I know that we do have a program that provides for medical treatment and dental care for less fortunate children. It is called CHIPS. I very much support this program. Also FYI I have been in the hospital four or five times since I was diagnosed with TM. Medicare paid for 80% of the hospital cost, including extended ICU care, as well as 80% of my doctors all of whom were specialist. I am proud to say that I was more than happy to pay my 20%. Medicare paid these cost at very significant discounted rates. My 20% was also based on these discounted rates. Even with this I had to pay several thousand dollars for my portion. I cannot believe that anyone thinks for some reason that their country owes them free anything medical, retirement, or whatever. I think this country has some of the best medical care in the world. Many of the best physicians in the world receive their education and intern training in this country. I am appalled that you are anyone else thinks they are entitled to have so much given to them. Since you are an economist you of all people should know there is no such thing as a free lunch. The cost of all of the things you want for free must be borne by your fellow citizens of this proud nation. I am reminded of this quote from former President Gerald Ford: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974) Cody in Austin, Texas From: Dalton Garis [mailto:malugss...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:31 PM To: Dalton Garis; I.WHIDDETT; <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] From hot, sticky, uncomfortable Essex . . . And [please let me rant for a while] Why doesn't this country have free medical insurance for all its citizens ??? What is that ideological secret that this country presumes to understand that the other developed countries, all of which provide free medical care (and decent retirement, child care for working parents and free higher education, also, for that matter), has failed to grasp? How many dollars could be saved with free insurance, thus preventing much more serious and costly complications later on? I read some time ago of a boy in Louisiana who died of Sepses, the deadly blood infection, because his parents lacked the $86.oo needed to have him treated by a dentist for an abscessed tooth! Aren't economies for the purpose of providing for its citizens and societies a better life? Or, are they ideologies with names that we are to worship and for the purity which the welfare of society's members are to be sacrificed ??? Why are we being crucified on the cross of ideological purity? Why are forced to worship names, rather than working to establish an economy—regardless of its label—that serves the needs of all the people in a just and fair manner? [Thank you for letting me rant for a minute, because I hate, as a citizen of this proud nation, to pay even one dollar for medical services.] Dalton Garis Flushing, Queens New York, USA
