Re: Health Care, Part MMXXXIV

Quiet, rich hammett <bubbarichau@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- I'm transmitting rage.

Minun olisi pitänyt tietää, olisi pitänyt tietää,
olisi pitänyt tietää KUKA SINÄ OLET, Dan Bretta:
On Aug 18, 7:26 pm, James Schrumpf
<jaspammenotschru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quiet, Jaybyrd <jaybyrdb...@xxxxxxxxx> -- I'm transmitting rage.

On Aug 17, 1:58 pm, James Schrumpf
<jaspammenotschru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quiet, Jim Gysin <jimgy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- I'm transmitting
rage.

Just the most recent examples of Why This Is A Bad Idea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6951330.stm

No hospital in Canada could help out, but Billings, MT could.
Billings.
As in Montana. As in population of 95K or so. And Canada, as
in
population of 33M or so.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_headline=220-day-cancer
-wai t-
hell%26method=full%26objectid=19639291%26siteid=66633-name_page.
html (orhttp://tinyurl.com/29jp7o)

Seven-month waits for cancer treatment in Scotland.

But yeah, I can see how we'd be much better off here by
following these examples.

At last count, there were more MRI machines in a 20-mile radius
of Center City Philadephia than in all of Canada.

at last count, 50 million americans would lose their house if
they had to use of of them.

Not at all. They use them, it's just that the hospitals have to pay
for it.

The great myth is that "the poor don't have health care." Yet every
hospital in America is required to treat anyone who needs care, even
if they don't have insurance.

What "the poor" don't have is health _insurance_. There's a
difference.

It's the middle class who are really screwed in America if they have
a health problem...unless they have good health insurance...and
"good" health insurance is getting harder and harder to come by
anymore. Poor people get essentially free healthcare, rich people can
afford it and the middle class struggle to afford it.

I wonder if countries with socialized healthcare prohibit a doctor
from opening their own clinics...I mean what keeps some
entreprenurial doctor in Canada or the UK from buying his own MRI
machine?

Poor people get BAD healthcare free. Very little preventative
medicine and early diagnosis like Loewe.

rich

Well, if one is waiting months for a scan in socialized medicine
countries, how can anyone claim that they're getting "preventative
medicine and early diagnosis" any better? That makes no sense.

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