We 'solved' it by keeping our eyes open nearly 40 years ago and doing something about national medical care. Many of the seemingly intractable problems you face are because you tolerate it. And when someone stands up to attack the problem all you do is complain about the method or a side issue. The facts are that you have the worst medical system in the civilized world. Decent health care is a right in a rich country but you have made it a privilege. Your litigious society has forced medical practitioners to spend the majority of their income on insurance, your drug companies rule the roost and your congress is complicit because of its inaction or support of the status quo.
It is not unknown for Australian insurers of tourists in the USA to pay for a medical evac flight home with all its attendant costs than to pay 10 times the costs of treatment in a US hospital. You have a mess for a health system and when you stand up and applaud the failure of a bill to improve it - no matter how flawed - then the rest of us just nod and smile and realize that you deserve the mess you have. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Saturday, 6 February 2010 12:19 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] No, he can't Geoff wrote: > Well at least you guys now get to keep you unenviable record as having the > worst health system in the civilized world. ENJOY! Hi Geoff, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Australia Is it working out for sick people in Australia? Is there a Death Panel? Is abortion mandatory for certain women? Are the doctors and nurses getting paid well enough for the brightest and best to be recruited? How does the taxpayer on the street feel about being taxed to support health care insurance for an alcoholic obese chainsmoking skydiver who cruises the whorehouses and/or gay bars when he isn't binge-drinking/eating or jumping out of planes? That and the drug companies getting special backroom deals if they do that down there? Issues such as these are sticking points here. If you have solved these issues, how did you do it? >> this doofus has the gall to >> chide "Washington" for too much spending even as he himself proposes a >> deficit the size of some black hole > There you go again! How many times do "they" have to tell you that it > only used to be "black". Right now it is "African American" until "they" > change it again. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
