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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.225249.27200@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec31.140006.5472@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:52:49 GMT
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- rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec30.193602.12123@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : >helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : >: In article <1992Dec29.193954.27752@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : >: |> I don't think that's what I said. The fact is that your free market
- : >: |> system fails to provide some 25% of your population with any medical
- : >: |> care whatsoever.
- : >:
- : >: I'll repeat myself and please read it this time, WE DON'T HAVE A FREE
- : >: MARKET IN HEALTH CARE. We have a "mixed system" in which the federal
- : >: goverment pays for and therefore mandates 60% of the health care.
- : >
- : >No need to shout. If you examine those countries whose health care is
- : >the envy of the rest of the world, you will find not only that they do
- : >not espouse a free market in health care, but that the entire health
- : >care system is run by the government. Case closed.
- :
- :
- : What, the German system that is in desparate need of reform due
- : to rising costs? Or do you mean the Canadian system--you know,
- : the same one that has it's patients coming down to the US
- : to get CT scans, MRI's and bone scans done because Canada
- : \ has insufficient hardware?
-
- Yeah, maybe because Candians don't put so much emphasis on high tech,
- high cost, low result gee-whiz medicine?
- :
- : The other day (about three weeks ago) I went to the doctor because
- : my knee was immobile. So, the doctor took some xrays and determined
- : that we needed anMRI done because there was obvious swelling, but
- : nothing to be seen on the xrays. So I called the MRI center to schedule
- : an appointment. "When would you like to come?" "Oh, well, when are
- : times available?" "*Oh, anytime, just about."
-
- And did they mention money at all? If you are one of the 25% of US
- citizens with no medical coverage would they have been quite so friendly?
- :
- : Thank you, yes--theUS does need reform. Medicare reform. Insurance
- : reform. But I'd rather have a system o' plenty than a deficient
- : system o' "let's all wait in lines like shoppers in a soviet
- : supermarket".
-
- Did I suggest a Russian system? Thought not.
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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