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Dear Robert Fink: I appreciated your response to my discussion about the high costs of some of these treatments . I would be very interested in reading your article, and would appreciate your letting us know if it is published. If not, I am sure there are others on this list who would be interested in reading it, & would also like to see you post it here. I have been associated with the medical profession in one way or another all of my adult life. While I respect, admire, etc.etc. physicians who do so much for so many, I do feel there has to be some limit on how much this should be worth financially. National health care scares me, because I worry about the range of negative effects it may have on the level of care provided. However, I believe something needs to be done to control these fees which I feel are out of proportion, and often inaccessible except to the financially advantaged. Clearly there's alot which needs to be "cleaned up", but I have never viewed the federal government as being terribly efficient. One major gain would come from an overhaul of hospitals, where inefficiency, etc. keeps overhead so high. Barb