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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (916)5/27/2005 2:34:15 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
While the government or private individuals or organizations can always help people without financial resources there shouldn't be an open ended expectation of medical care at what ever level it takes to deal with your problem. It could amount to millions, and often amounts to many thousands. There is going to be some form of rationing. If it isn't by price its going to be rationed some other way. Either by availability (emergency rooms closing down, doctors leaving certain types of practices in certain areas) or by bureaucracy (tons of paperwork and approvals needed), or by queue (sure you can have that surgery, you go on the back of a 6th month waiting list), or by bribery (might be considered an alternate form of rationing by price), or by connections (you know the guy who makes the decisions for the insurance company, or your best friends with the hospitals head of surgery you get in), or by some other method. Resources simply are not infinite.

Tim
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