On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:35 AM, David Cake <[email protected]> wrote:
> PS yeah, Chuck, you are just completely, objectively, wrong on the > whole US vs UK thing. Admit it like a man. The UK is regarded as a > disaster by people comparing it to other nations with free national > health care systems, but the US is still worse than all of those. I think Chucks point of view is tainted by his delusions about the efficacy of the free-market. I imagine he thinks that the inevitable inefficiences in large burocracies that are not profit oriented make the whole thing a disaster. Instead of taking a look at the massive disaster in his own country, he's making assumptions about an institution he knows nothing about because it smells like socialism. The diffuse burocratic inefficiency in entities like the NHS is in fact comparatively cheap when compared to the costs of non-evidence based procedures and prescriptions, or even when compared to the bonuses and dividends paid by private insurers. The diffuse inefficiency is also being effectively combatted in European countries that have adopted models based on a system that was, I believe, first initiated in Australia that in turn is a derivative of the original UK system. AT the same time, nobody, and I mean nobody is copying the USA. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
