In my limited experience, those countries that provide automatic
mediacal care to all citizns often do it rather badly - to the point
where my parents in the UK took out private insurance on top (BUPA)
to avoid long waits for what the government had decided were non-
urgent elective procedures - like hip replacements.
I favour a mix as we have here of voluntary private insurance, partly
tax deductible. heavily underwritten by government subsidy and with
full welfare provision for the needy and indigent - seems to work
rather well. People still complain about it though. Of course.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 25/05/2008, at 11:28 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> Now, fuel is getting as costly as
> everywhere else but on top of that we have to contend with being
> screwed on
> things like medical care that other countries provide for all
> citizens.
>
> And, no, the USA is no longer a democracy...it is a Plutocracy.
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