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even now, the costs of health care are inflated by people that use no common sense:

there are those that run to the doctor at any excuse. women are prone to this, my mother was an example. (men usually have the opposite problem, they don't go often enough.) when my mother and father visited me from out of town, i noticed she had a samsonite piece of luggage exclusively for her pills.

which brings us to another aspect of health care--doctors that over prescribe. many doctors are pawns of the pharmaceutical co's, and drive new mercedes given to them by the pharmaceutical industry for moving product.

after my mother died, my father discovered that many of her medications were not advised for usage together. in short, she was being killed by modern medicine.

there are those who go to emergency rooms for colds or flu.