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From: kmk@hlwpc.UUCP (Ken Keyzer)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.cooks,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Hostile faddists
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 12:57:53 EDT
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> 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
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