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To: Larry Brubaker who wrote (34014)9/4/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson   of 35569
 
Larry, The whining comes before the revolution, I hope. The free medical care is way overblown.
You can get a cat scan in Buffalo with few hours notice for $400-600 however the hospital system here burdens the CAT scanners with an overhead structure so that the hospital sees a cost of $2000+ for each on they do. Consequently they use the sparingly. the extra marginal cost is probably $2 worth of electricity and $10 worth of technician time. To give you an idea, you can get a real scan of your cat for $100 on the same machine with a moonlighting tecnician as the hospital is allowed to use it for non human uses for whatever fee it likes. the vets use them all the time.
Like any socialist scheme that make an item free it gets overused. There are drug dealers who have a stable of 40-50 doctorrs they visit to get assorted narcotics. the plan gets billed for the visit and they take the prescription and get some codeine or whatever and sell it/use it. The doctors know what is going on, but they get a tiny short visit that they bill ohip for and there is no cross correlation to catch this.
In fact a favorite trick as to rent your hospital card to an American who wanted free medical care. They started using pictures to stop that. The embedded beurocracy is alarming, but the US plans have their similar problems with blue cross admins getting $400,000 salaries.

Bill
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