Right, Alice. GfS is right about the quality of the American diet, but I've heard all that acid/alkaline stuff before and knew it was pure quackery. His/her thesis seems to be that if we all stop eating at Burger King and stay away from the Twinkies, health insurance will no longer be necessary.

My wife, who does most of the grocery shopping, is up on nutrition and very health conscious (we're almost vegetarians and she always asks me "Have you had your fruit today?"), and I'm fully aware of such issues myself. But what medical expenses I've had over the past several decades have had nothing to do with diet.

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I've had chiropractic adjustments all my life (my father was a chiropractor). My current chiropractor's office is only a few blocks from where I live. He takes a long lunch hour and goes jogging. On his way back to his office, about once every two weeks (oftener if I need it) he stops by here and works me over. Massages the back muscles, adjusts the vertebrae. The 3rd lumbar vertebra at the apex of the curvature is the culprit that keeps slipping out—feels like I have a railroad spike in my back. When he finishes, I can just lay on the bed and relax, and let the adjustment set.

And except for a small co-pay, my insurance pays for that also.

House calls. How rare is that!??

I would sure as hell hate to be without health insurance, and I feel very sorry for those who don't have any. When other countries, nowhere as rich as ours, have health care systems that are as good as (and in many cases better than) ours, paid for by taxes (just like police and fire protection) or by a regulated insurance system that costs a fraction of what is deducted from my wife's paycheck, the United States is actually way behind a lot of "third world" countries.

But we do have some of the best politicians that money can buy!!

Don Firth