Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...


On Monday, in article
<9L2dnVuO3sG6mZDVnZ2dnUVZ_v2pnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
source@xxxxxxxxxx "David Harmon" wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:47:46 GMT in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Jette
<bosslady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
Nobody would trust a doctor that the NHS wouldn't employ.

A doctor that real people are willing to freely spend THEIR OWN MONEY
to employ is obviously a better recommendation than one that is only
good enough to take the NHS dole, handed out by bureaucrats whose
primary concerns are getting their cut and making their own lives
pleasant.

Unlike insurance companies taking a cut to pay the shareholders?

You're ignoring a huge elephant in this particular room. Markets depend
on knowledge, and how do people find out who the good Doctors and
surgeons are? In the UK, the NHS is a good first filter. It makes
headlines, and tends to national political scandal. when they make a
mistake over competence. And Jette said "wouldn't employ". It is
possible for Doctors in private practice--think "Harley Street"--to not
be currently employed by the NHS, but getting kicked out of an NHS job
is not how you start a thriving medical business.

Look, I'll admit I'm biased. Nothing I've heard about the market-driven
American system encourages me to think all of my immediate family would
still be alive. I'll admit news stories emphasise the unusual. But, myth
or not, we don't have ER staff checking for insurance policies as well
as breathing. And the statistics on such standard measures as life
expectancy and infant mortality put many countries ahead of the USA.

--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

On the horizon, a carrier task force of the Salvation Navy was
turning into the wind, preparing to launch Zeppelins.
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