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rfolland
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Posted: Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 11:57 pm |
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The countries that have government health care tend to triage their cases as a cost containment technique. Critical cases get immediate attention, while non-critical conditions don't. Elective procedures have to wait a while longer. Seems as if we pay a lot more for convenience. When Washington state started their program, there was a lot of screaming because to deal with finite funding, some aspects of health care had to be "rationed".
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Manatee
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Posted: Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 11:49 pm |
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When we lived "back yonder" I had a cataract condition. Our snowbird neighbor also had a cataract condition. She went to her doctor in Ontario and was told "I will put you on the list, you turn will come up in about a year". I went to my local doctor and he said "lets do it next thursday".
Too many times government is the problem, not the solution.
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rfolland
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Posted: Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 11:32 pm |
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It is axiomatic that nothing affecting the legal system gets through Congress unless the bar association signs off on it. The same applies to the finance, pharmaceutical, and health care industries. To quote Ralph Nader, "Americans have lost control of their country". At present the United States is the only industrialized nation that does not have some sort of universal health care. 30 million people, or 10% of the population has no health care. According to recent press articles, Americans spend 2-3 times as much for health care that is not quite as good as is available elsewhere. Our infant mortality rate is something to be ashamed of. My daughter has a friend who works for a small Nevada company that doesn't provide health insurance. In order to afford surgery for colon cancer he had to borrow from his parents and travel to Mexico City. For the uninsured, we can take a word from Ebeneezer Scrooge that the "poor should die in order to decrease the surplus population."
The fact is, that according to current polls, 72 per cent of the population wants some sort of government health care minimums. The 28 per cent remaining probably agree with Ann Coulter who stated. "Just because you go to see a man in a white coat, why should I have to pay for it?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 11:28 pm |
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There is an enormous push from the left to get the government in control of all medical care. Not one of the strident voices mentions the totally out of control legal costs that the medical field today faces. To them Tort Reform is unthinkable, heresy even. But then all most of them are lawyers.
Ask your doctor what he pays for malpractice insurance. It exceeds many peoples yearly income by 2 or 3 times. Who does congress and the administration represent?
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