Re: health care levels and costs

2002-12-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debbi asked- snip My other concern is that holding the costs ends to be a reactive philosophy. Some posters have already noted that preventive measures can have good return on investment. Could you expand on this? Let me try a few angles on

Re: health care levels and costs

2002-12-22 Thread Kanandarqu
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debbie asked- [actually, it was Ronn] OTOH, where *does* one¹ hold the line on health costs? This is a doozie to work through, maybe we can start this one bit at a time and try an international flair. So far to date (after some schooling and thinking) I

Re: health care levels and costs

2002-12-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:21 PM 12/19/02 -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote: My real objections here are in the case of severely limited resources, frex organs for transplant, going to people who caused their own problems (Mickey Mantle and David Crosby getting livers, after years of alcohol and alc/drug abuse). No one

health care levels and costs

2002-12-19 Thread Kanandarqu
Debbie asked- OTOH, where *does* one¹ hold the line on health costs? This is a doozie to work through, maybe we can start this one bit at a time and try an international flair. So far to date (after some schooling and thinking) I like the Australian System best. Philisophically I figure

Re: health care levels and costs

2002-12-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debbie asked- [actually, it was Ronn] OTOH, where *does* one¹ hold the line on health costs? This is a doozie to work through, maybe we can start this one bit at a time and try an international flair. So far to date (after some schooling and thinking) I