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Debbie et. al.<BR>
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Yes, hospitals do discriminate. The person with unlimited funds can gain access to the best doctors offering the best treatments, including increased access to blood transfusions during expensive critical medical procedures when their blood type might be in short supply. The person with no money and no medical insurance will get some sort of emergency treatment, but if they need open heart surgery or extensive cancer treatment or other sorts of very expensive medical care, they will discover in many cases that lack of financial resources means their lives do not matter as much as the rich.<BR>
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V2020 is often not so much a "cesspool of spite" as a focus for fuzzy thinking from those who let their culturally conditioned blinders overcome the application of logic and fact utilized to clarify the truth of the social/political/economic conditions of our society.<BR>
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Ted Moffett<BR>
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