RE: R&D Re: Europe, the US, and Environmentalism

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Ronn Blankenship
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:03 PM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: R&D Re: Europe, the US, and Environmentalism

> >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...   :-)
> 
> 
> No, it will be because your choices were to wait months for open-heart
> surgery or fly* to the US and pay for it yourself.

Exactly how are waiting lists for open-heart surgery the government's fault?
Or the fault of the insurance companies, for that matter?

What we have here is a capacity problem. Neither the government nor the
insurance companies can magically create more surgeons, more OR's and more
hospital beds.

When we go abroad to have surgery, we often don't have to pay for it
ourselves. Nowadays, if you need a life-saving operation and can't get it in
time in The Netherlands, insurance companies usually pay for having surgery
abroad.


Jeroen

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