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To: combjelly who wrote (489441)	6/20/2009 5:34:22 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1571695

Your thesis was that other systems ration health care. Which they do, of course. I was pointing out that was a load of hooey. Now you want to talk about something else. You're wrong on every count. Health care rationing is common all over the world, except here. Whether it is the Brits saying they won't allow the best chemo drugs to be used, the waiting times to see physicians in many, many countries, or the lack of lab and imaging facilities in almost every country having socialized care. We talked about rationing in a place where health care costs are "9%" as RW suggested, not Germany where health care costs are in the 11+% range, perhaps higher. I pointed out to you first that the German system isn't comparable to what's being proposed here, and secondly that there is, effectively, rationing, because they've created an environment where would be physicians do something else, resulting in a per-capita shortage of physicians WRT the US (which already has a massive shortage of primary care physicians that is going to worsen even without the paycuts being proposed by the administration). Not one thing in your post was factual.

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