[Tommy]

Anthony,

I genuinely appreciate the civil discourse even though we may not agree on everything. I'm also willing to defer to your knowlege of and experience in the system from the point of view of a health care provider. However, I think my experience as the parent of a child who was hospitalizd for more than 600 days, and as a patient who was nearly killed by the self serving actions of a general practice doctor gives me the right to speak for many of the customers of our health care system. I suspect our differences are because we have fundamentally different views on the purpose of the health care system.