Ed, You said: "Personally, I wasn't very good at it. As for our lousy health care, I've just had a knee replaced and all I had to pay was the additional cost of a semi-private room, about $120. I wonder what that would've cost someone in the US who had no private insurance. And I didn't have to wait very long for the surgery - a couple of months or so." My son had no insurance when he contracted colon cancer. He was treated in the local county hospital for about 20 months before he succumbed. During this time, he had extensive chemotherapy, umpteen machine analyses, plentiful prescription drugs including expensive anti-cancer pills ($250 a pill), lots of extras such as waterproof bed sheets, a number of hospital stays, and hospice in the home for the final days. His cost? Nothing. Harry ****************************** Henry George School of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 (818) 352-4141 ****************************** From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Don't worry and try very very very hard to behappy! Ray said: Whining eventually gets someone's attention and I've heard whining about the lousy government jobs in Canada for years and thought that they didn't know how lucky they were. Same for Canadian citizens who complained about lousy health care and came here for their care. It never hurts to have competition and if you need something immediate the American private sector is good at rescues when the Canadian or Veterans Hospitals here would take longer. America is just bad at long term solutions to almost anything. Ed says: I spent 30 years in the Canadian public service. I didn't hear very much whining, though of course there was some. Personally, I wasn't very good at it. As for our lousy health care, I've just had a knee replaced and all I had to pay was the additional cost of a semi-private room, about $120. I wonder what that would've cost someone in the US who had no private insurance. And I didn't have to wait very long for the surgery - a couple of months or so. However, we're now beginning to run into some problems. The baby-boomer population, aprx. 55 to 70, is growing and becoming a much larger part of the population. And it seems that we don't have enough doctors and may not have enough medical facilities. Baby-boomers may have to wobble around on crotchety knees much longer than I did or, if they can afford it, go to the US and buy a new knee there.
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