huh Well, I dislike socialized medicine. Nonetheless.
When I went back to DC I found out that a friend of mine had died because she wasn't getting her insulin. I am sure that her repeated emergency room visits, ambulance rides and hospital stays cost far far more than it would have cost the hopital to simply give her a supply of insulin. I am sure that someone out there is going to tell me that she should have been working -- well, she was until she got so sick. But here's my point -- I may prefer the American system but there is no way something like that is more efficient, sorry. And ::cough:: patient out comes have to be taken into consideration. So here we have a situation where the American way of medicine cost exponentially more, and the patient died a totally preventable death. Just because I can make it work better for me does not make it rational, efficient, or effective when you consider the societal picture. Possibly the answer is something like the British system. I didn't thnk much of National Health but it does assure a minimum standard of care. Cathi would have gotten her insulin, and been able to go back to work. One thing about the British system is that you are free to pay if you want more than the system offers -- a feature not offered by the Canadians. Dana On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Billy Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Bureaucracy is the inevitable result of attempting to deliver a complex > > array of services in a fair manner. The tax system is the same way. > > This is actually the biggest challenge to healthcare. It's a > massively huge system that includes everyone in the country (one way > or another) - even more people than the tax system. It's very > difficult for any managed system to handle this, but those huge > systems are something free markets tend to deal with better. This is > the same difference between the Soviet planning model and the American > Capitalism. > > In the US, the cost of this system comes out in the markets, though > Healthcare is very VERY far away from an open and free market right > now (and probably should stay that way in many regards). > > Many other post-industrial nations have nationalize healthcare, which > is very inefficient from a cost standpoint, but that's alot less > obvious because the cost is supported by a board base of taxpayers and > rolled up into the total tax rate. > > The difference? The cost of Healthcare in the US is born by the > consumer directly, in other countries it goes through a terribly > inefficient government filter first. The US actually has some pretty > darn low tax rate compared to other countries with national healthcare > programs, > > -Cameron > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263022 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
