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In other words, you want your neighbors [taxpayers] to pay your medical bills. If
health care become free to the applicant, he will have unlimited demands for it.
This will bankrupt ANY system of care. The problem is that socializing medical care
always greatly increases the cost of care. I say return to the fair market system. I
used to spend a day and a half every week, back in the sixties and seventies, giving
my services at the county hospital without pay. The costs were modest, and the
quality was good. But it was not an open ended system in which the amount of care
was decided upon by hypochondriacal patients, government bureaucrats, or insurance
companies. It was given to patients according to the need, decided by conscientious
physicians, and it was successful in providing good care to those who could not
afford private care. This is called a two tier system, in which there is no
incentive for third parties to exploit the system by limiting quality of care in
order to make money, nor for patients to overuse the system, as is the case today.
doc
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William Hugh Tunstall wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Both my grandmother and grandfather died of cancer back in the nineteen
> sixties... After the hospitalization, the doctors and the cobalt
> treatments.there
> was nothing left of my grandparents's savings. Fortunately, they died
> before they were penniless.
>
> I think we need a national health program...and the fact that wealthy
> Canadians come to the US to seek out specialists isn't a compelling
> argument when you consider that one out of three kids in the US lives in
> poverty...and health care for millions of children is an ongoing problem.
>
> My son has type one diabetes. Do you know how many insurance companies
> are interested in covering him? NONE.
>
> I don't believe that good health is a "right"....but I do believe that a
> nation as sophisticated and enlightened as ours can do a better job in
> providing affordable care for ordinary citizens.
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, nessie wrote:
>
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > >Well, you won't get your coronary bypass, nor often the necessary tests,
> > such as
> > anMRI, nor an expensive drug such as one that costs $2-3.00under the
> > Canadian
> > system.
> >
> > You won't them here either, or anything else, if you're one of the forty
> > million with no coverage.
> >
> > >Affluent Canadians come across the border for really complex care.
> >
> >
> > Affluent people of all nations get better health care than the rest of us.
> > This is an atrocity. Health care is a human right.
> >
> > On the other hand, expecting either the government OR the profit driven
> > insurance industry to provide it is hopelessly nieve.
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