--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
> >
> > Positive side of government-run health care: if I
> die, at
> > least it won't be due to being denied proper
> health care
> > because it wasn't profitable for the insurance
> > company... :-)
> >
> I've heard many independent testimonies about German
>
> g*vernment-run health care system, and they are
> invariably
> horror stories. Things like a woman that suffered
> pain for
> 40+ hours because the (evil, insensitive)
> obstetricians
> didn't want to do a C-section.
>
> OTOH, I've heard some horror stories about USA
> capitalist
> controlled health care system, like pregnancies
> without
> ultrassound (because it's too expensive) or a woman
> suffering a 1-year long headache whose physician
> didn't
> sent her to a neurologist.
>
I'm intimately familiar with what's wrong with our
HMO's, and my girlfriend works in human resources
specializing in benefits. But let's be fair- in
America if you have a big health problem you start
calling people and yelling until you get satisfaction.
It doesn't have to be borne, you can get what you
need one way or another. The reason we have so many
of those life-sucking lawyers is to scare the big boys
into doing what's right when they're slacking.
dean
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