"Moonraker" <fuggadaboutit@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:FDGUa.6053$IE6.2133@fe02.atl2.webusenet.com.. .
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> "rosie readandpost" <readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:EJGUa.53587$6a3.966740@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> > you wanted to know if the medical community considers alcoholism a
> disease?
> > they sure do, and its billable!
> >
> Good. Put it on my tab, then.


WHAT??????????????????????/
no argument?
i think i am going to faint!

THUD

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:29:02 -0500, "rosie readandpost"
<readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote:

>you wanted to know if the medical community considers alcoholism a disease?
>they sure do, and its billable!
>
>does that answer it for you?

Rosie, you said alcoholism is classified today as a disease by the
medical profession. To that, I responded:

> By the medical profession? It isn't today either, is it? What
> official medical journal lists "alcoholism" under its diseases?

To which you replied:

> the MOST important medical resource......................DSM-IV

However, you were apparently incapable of supporting that assertion,
hence you resort to claiming that medics bill for alcoholism therefore
it must be classified as a disease. So is all billing done in
accordance with definitions within DSM-IV, or is the most convenient
wording simply put onto invoicing systems?

--
Blue Moon

"Cartman" <omar_adebisi@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "rosie readandpost" <readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> SNIP
>
> > i suppose that is due to lack of a NATIONAL health program.
> > certainly NOT perfect, but very doable.
> > rosie
>
> And is [NATIONAL Health Program] very desirable for socialists and
anti-free
> market twits. My manager had about 5 years of dental work done in 6 months
> while he was reassigned here in the U.S. from Coventry.....would have
taken
> YEARS to get the same treatment... Rosie, you must be one of those tax and
> spend democrats.....Perhaps "rosie taxandspend".....
>
> - Cartman
>
At least if he was poor he would have had the work done here in the UK for
free, and if not exactly well off, there would be a cap on the cost of
treatment. Why should any medical treatment be denied to anyone. Our NHS is
by no means perfect, but I'd rather have that than none at all, and I really
don't mind paying my taxes for it either. I never know If I will be out of
work again. As someone whose working life must have been affected
detrimentally by alcohol abuse why would you want to deny anyone free
medical treatment?

> So is all billing done in
> accordance with definitions within DSM-IV, or is the most convenient
> wording simply put onto invoicing systems?
>
> --
> Blue Moon

actually, i also added a couple other sources.
keep up, will ya'?