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"It is instructive to take one of the biggest companies and to look at their stock price. Carlines insurance carrier is Aetna (ticker symbol AET). The stock performance for the last 5 years is spectacular (shoulda bought it). So at least some of our money goes there. Indeed in the reports I saw, they were lobbying very strongly against health plans." Well, I decided to take a further look and check the Oxford health plan by a company called United Health Care (ticker symbbol UNH). The rise in the stock price almost parallels that of Aetna and is equally spectacular. So that's where at least some of medical money is going. Is free enterprise good? Yes, *but* ... only if there is competition or price control. In medicine there is neither. K. F. Etzold cg Carline ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn