> -----Original Message----- > From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:21 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Canada's 'universal' health care > > They can outsource because we're not using the same system. If we were > where would they outsource to? Mexico? UK?
The would outsource to whomever had the services until it because less expensive to build the services themselves. That's just good business. I'm challenging the argument that socialized medicine automatically results in reduced high-end services using Canada as a case-study. You can't separate the fact that the Canadian system was built in the shadow and with the optional support of the U.S. system. In other words it's not "The Canadian System" that resulted in the quality of care issues the article raised, it's the "Canadian System and it's interactions with the American System" that did. Like any complex social system you can't make reasonable assumptions or predictions without looking at the environment in which it occurred. Any attempt to socialize medicine in the U.S. would almost definitely end up much different than the Canadian system for the simple fact that we would not have a convenient, compatible, resource-rich system to rely on. To put it differently the author seems to suggest that Canada's system "failed" so that it now relies on the U.S. system for backup. I would argue instead that it succeeded so well because it was _designed_ to do so. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:240701 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
