Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!kmk From: kmk@hlwpc.UUCP (Ken Keyzer) Newsgroups: net.med,net.cooks,net.consumers Subject: Re: Hostile faddists Message-ID: <592@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 12:57:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hlwpc.592 Posted: Thu Aug 22 12:57:53 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:54:24 EDT References: <652@mit-vax.UUCP> <2071@ukma.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.med:2150 net.cooks:4662 net.consumers:2835 > Oded Feingold wrote a response to Ton Stanions (net.med#973), that so > well represented the too common response I have seen to people trying > to share the greatest advance in the history of health care (Holistic > Medicine), that I just had to comment. > [...] > > The same mechanism exists in the "Disease Insurance Industry". They > make money on the basis of how much they pay out. They simply > increase their premiums based on their expenditures. There is no > incentive for medical insurance companies to try to reduce medical > costs. Current statistics indicate that the Holistic Medical Model > would reduce the medical expenses in this country by at least 50%. > What would happen to any insurance company that had to cut their > premiums by 50%? Their staff would have to be cut. Their buildings > would have to be reduced. Their influence would be lessened. There No problem! The insurance companies can sell "bad vibes" insurance. -- Ken Keyzer AT&T Bell Laboratories ihnp4!hlwpc!kmk