begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:54:02AM -0700: > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > > The correct answer is to emulate the Canadian health care system, the > > best in the world, far cheaper than ours, and no burden on industry. > > Go ask the Canadian doctors that come to the US so they can practice > medicine instead of a government sponsored HMO.
Can't get filthy rich in an HMO 'less your the CEO of the HMO. Gotta come down to the US in order to fleece the richer populace. Don't have enough regulation and litigation? You get quacks. Get enough litigation to reduce the number of quacks? You get sky-high malpractice insurance (which gets passed on to the customers). Got enough regulation to reduce the number of quacks? You're now letting the government interfere with private industry. Let private industry "solve the problem"? Well, the problem they solve is how to part people from their money, not how to keep 'em from getting sick. Make it a government enterprise? That's a monopoly, and all the "we don't care we don't have to" problems that come with that. There are no good solutions. Only a selection of barely acceptable ones, and a whole slew of sucky ones. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
