Re: BUSH IN ISREAL

"Dutch"

The limits are defined by the inherent resources of the system. There are
X doctors, Y hospital beds, Z nurses, Q operating rooms, and T dollars in
the health care budget within the Medicare System for a given year.

There is no such thing as "inherent resources," Dutch ... you are back to
double talk.

"All" people "everywhere" in Canada do NOT get what they "need" when they
need it. People that live in certain areas get "better" care than people
who do not live in those areas. How doctors (and nurses and all the others)
are trained, paid, distributed, and everything else ... and how many they
are ... and how good they are ... are all determined by "the government"
system ... the equipment, from MRI machines to latex gloves, is determined
in number and type and distribution by the "government" system ... there is
no competition from the patients to give any meaningful quality assurance
.... apparently, from the citations given, which you continue to ignore,
hundreds of thousands of folks cannot even find a family doctor. Politics
are what gets "things done" in the Canadian system ... and are much of the
problems of any system ... it is a matter of degree.

No one is saying that Canada has a bad system ... it is what you want. Some
people think there is a way to have a better system than one "dominated" by
politics. No one can eliminate politics from any system of health care
delivery. There are pros and cons for all methods of distribution of things
and services.

But no one should fool themselves about the "inherent" difficulties of any
economic model.

but it has its heart in the right place

No one doubts that ... no one. The desire for "fairness" is very strong.
Folks who decide that "for profit" is "inherently" "evil" are trapped in an
ideological box. (It is "fair" to say that those who believe that
competition and as free a market as possible with as little government
"interference" as possible is "better" than more and more "expert" control
are just trapped in a different box.)

The difference is the difference between Keynes and Hayek. There was a time
when Lord Keynes had no competition ... time has proven that those countries
that bought in completely are proving that Hayek was correct. Too much
power given to the state is not the road to "fairness" ... it is the road to
serfdom.


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