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- From: robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Nationalized Lawyers was Re: pitch for nat'l health, was: etc
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:31:37 GMT
- Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
- Lines: 56
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- References: <1993Jan25.025050.21815@microsoft.com> <1993Jan25.135630.4790@bnr.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan25.135630.4790@bnr.uk> npet@bnr.ca (Nick Pettefar) writes:
- >LISTEN! YOU SHIT-FOR-BRAINS LITTLE DWEEB! NEXT TIME YOU GET TURNED AWAY FROM
- >A HOSPITAL FOR NOT HAVING PAID YOUR INSURANCE AND ARE LEFT TO DIE IN THE GUTTER
- >BECAUSE NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT EACH OTHER IN YOUR PATHETIC EXCUSE OF AN
- >EXPERIMENTAL COUNTRY,
-
- Actually, it doesn't work that way.
-
- For example, when I wrecked, I was sort of hoping the incompetent gaggle
- of emergency services personnel who had gathered at my side *would* just
- leave me in the gutter to my own devices.
-
- They made me lie on the one injury I had sustained (a third degree tailpipe
- burn on my butt) for the better part of an hour, while they debated the
- severity of my spinal injuries.
-
- They sat around debating about whether to call Life-Flight (a helicopter
- ambulance service). I was strongly against the idea, but they weren't
- paying any attention to me. Fortunately, this was in the mountainous
- terrain near Alice's Restaurant, and the helicopter couldn't find anyplace
- to land, so I was spared a $24,000 ambulance trip.
-
- Etc., etc., etc., and all before anyone asked if I had insurance.
-
- See, in the United States, we're not so crass as to allow people to
- die in the gutter. In fact, that's how most uninsured people get their
- medical care; they start out with a minor ailment which progresses to
- the point that they are about to die in the gutter, at which point they
- receive emergency room treatment at ten times what it would have cost
- had treatment been administered in a timely fashion. The hospitals
- then absorb this cost as overhead, and pass it along to the insurance
- companies in the form of higher costs for covered procedures.
-
-
- >PONDER A WHILE ABOUT THE MARVELS OF A NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE!
-
- Ok.
-
- There. Happy?
-
- >Our postal service is the envy of most countries. 91% (?) of first class
- >letters are delivered by the following day, even from Cornwall to the
- >Highlands of Scotland.
-
- Big fat hairy deal.
-
- Q: What's the difference between the United States and Great Britain?
-
- A: In the United States, a hundred years is a long time, and in Great
- Britain a hundred miles is a long distance.
-
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