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 Subject :Health care or healthcare.. 2009-11-12 12:12:30 
cadillac
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I'm having a little problem with the JBS confusion over how to spell health care. For umpteen years, until maybe last week, health care has been spelled health care. But your latest article spells it healthcare, forcing the question of why don't you simply pick one form or the other and be consistent? Not that this is a big deal, really. But a professional publication ought to have a style book it adheres to; possibly health care is not in your book, or you are hesitating to make a fatal decision as to which way you plant to go, health care, or the New Age "healthcare."
On your article "Healthcare: the road ahead," you manage to spell it as one word in the title and the text, but in related articles can be found these as a sample of the ambivalent usage:
Healthcare: The Road Ahead

President Obama’s plans to dramatically reform healthcare

Reject Health Care Cooperatives -- Trojan Horse for the Public Option

Crowd Against a Government Takeover of Health Care --

DNC Ad Calls Healthcare Protesters “Angry Mob”

Would the Real Health Care Bill Please Stand Up?

Of note, the bill Madam Pelosi just rammed through the HOR, is titled “The Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962.”

Seems if we want to start combining the two words, maybe we ought to go all the way and spell footcare and kidneycare and petcare......??

Just wond'rin', friends.....
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 Subject :Re:Health care or healthcare.. 2009-11-12 12:25:20 
rprew
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It would seem to me that "health care" and "healthcare" are two different things. Your doctor provides you with "health care". You buy or your employer provides "health care" insurance. The doctors, nurses, hospitals, etc., are "health care" providers.

"Healthcare", on the other hand, refers SPECIFICALLY to the socialized form of "health care" proposed by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al.

"Health care" is good. "Healthcare" is bad. I do not want "healthcare" for my "health care".
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