Re: Longevity & Smoking: Use your parent's birth certificate.
"Bill" <williamdochnahl@adelphia . net > wrote in message
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> Or a group that actually thinks that solving health care problems can
> be done by giving it over to the federal government. You want to keep
> smoking? Then don't vote for universal health care. It's a small
> leap from there to the fed telling you what unhealthy things you can
> and can not do. If the Gov. can't sort out their own problems what
> makes you think they can fix your health?
The problem is that if you look at the outcomes (life expectancy, rates of
illness, child mortality, etc) the private approach does no better than
state-funded health care -- worse, if you correlate with healthcare
expenditure.