I went to an interesting talk the other evening given by 2 physicians on the topic of nationalized (as opposed to socialized) health insurance. The differences in terms of cost and quality of care between the U.S. and other western countries was amazing. We are far behind in this area. They mentioned that there is currently a bill in place in Massachusetts to "nationalize" health care in this state. They recommended that we contact our state representatives to vote for this bill, or to vote for representatives who are in favor of it. Both physicians are members of the organization, Physicians for a National Health Plan (non-physicians can also join) www.pnhp.org <http://www.pnhp.org/> Also, for more information on single pay care in MA, check out www.masscare.org <http://www.masscare.org/> Nancy L. Shulman nshulman at att.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20050307/bccd6d3f/attachment-0010.html