England's NHS (National Health Service) is tremendous and doesn't bring government to it's knees the way RoMunn might have you believe. Same can be said for Canada's national healtcare. A healthy populace can pay taxes.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > My house mate's mother fell and injured her back while visiting us > last week. She lives in Britain and is covered by their medical > system. We took her to the emergency here. Twenty minutes of care > and one x-ray cost almost 2 grand. When she got back to Britain she > saw her doctor there the first day she was home. No wait. He spent > at least an hour going over all the symptom she was having, did > another couple of x-rays, wrapped her ribs, which the doc here > neglected to do. Cost: Zero. I'm for that system. > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > You have to admit though waiting days or weeks to see a doctor is > substantially better than not being able to afford a doctor at all. Moreover > being able to see a doctor for a lot of things now means not making very > expensive emergency room visits later - because you had to put off seeing > the doctor in the first place. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
