A
Okay, what do you think about, uh, the self insurance business?
B
Well, I watched something on T V a couple of months ago by, uh, General, ex, uh, Surgeon General Koop.
A
Uh-huh.
B
And he talked about Canada's system and it appears to work fine for the normal colds and things like that, but the expensive stuff, heart, uh, operations and things, they have a managed scarcity. And they said that in Canada, there were as many heart, uh, trauma centers as there is in San Francisco. So in one city of, in America, there's as many, uh, hospitals that are equipped to do hosp-, uh, heart operations as in the entire area of Canada, and that's kind of spooky.
A
Well, I, uh, I understand what you're saying, and there's probably some truth to that. I think that, uh, generally I don't welcome added government responsibilities. However, when a, anybody can't police their own profession, it eventually leads to that, and I think the costs and the, uh, the way the medical profession has, every year I, being in my own business, uh, in the last six years, every year there's been at least minimum twenty-five percent increase in health insurance costs, and I think eventually the number of people that can afford health insurance, as, as it is now getting squeezed and squeezed tighter.
B
Uh-huh.