At 11:29 AM 7/18/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM 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... :-)
>>
>> 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.
Because in the United States, when we don't have enough surgeons, we start
traising the prices we pay for surgeons until more people decide to become
surgeons.
Socialism, on the other hand, just pretends that scarcity doesn't exist,
and/or the government doesn't have to do anything about it. In this case,
your socialistic system survives because you guys can make up your capacity
shortage by flying to the free-market USA. Maybe we *should* go
socialistic, so that way we can cause the whole house of cards to topple over.
JDG
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