From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 02:07:27 MDT
Most of your info was reasonable I think except this astounding bit:
On Saturday 23 August 2003 06:44, Robbie Lindauer wrote:
>
> On the other hand, food bills for a family of four are around
> $2000/month. By FAR the biggest expenses are Rent/Mortgage and Food.
>
Huh? I can feed a familly of four 50 meals/month in a restaurant on that kind
of money! I can and have fed a family of four on $500/month. You don't go
out much and avoid a lot of over-priced junk in the diet but it just ain't
that hard.
> Speaking of health care - THEN there was a local doctor who would do
> house visits for $1 OR LESS. NOW you can't get a doctor to do house
> visits and it costs upwards of $100/visit (even the copay IF you have
> insurance is 10-20). For those of you who can count, thats 2000x
> inflation. You might argue that the medical care is better - which it
> is if you happen to be among the wealthies 5% of americans - the rest
> of us are dying at alarming rates from some of the same diseases and
> injuries that were killing THEM THEN with much worse new ones
> including, by far, the largest killers - Accidental Death, Malignant
> Neoplasms and Heart Disease. CF - http://webapp.cdc.gov
>
I'm sorry but this claim that we are dying at alarming rates from old diseases
if we are not in the top 5% is way over the top. Facts and figures please.
Accidental death is new? Heart disease is new? I am confused by your
wording.
- samantha
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