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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (205959)	11/20/2002 8:07:48 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

houston right?

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (205959)	11/20/2002 8:41:40 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Respond to of 436258

WLD, pseudo-socialization is probably worse than the real thing, it seems. <ng> At least up here, the doctors still have some influence on the process.

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (205959)	11/21/2002 12:36:33 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 436258

what is happening now is the psuedo-socialization of healthcare and quality, in my experience, is deteriorating. Just recently I had dinner with a couple that both work for the Feds setting health care policy for Medicare and Medicaid. The woman is a good friend, an old running partner of mine. She starting telling me the story of her son's broken arm and the ordeal at the hospital. The gist of the story was that she didn't feel very well taken care of and at one point when she tried to help the technician with her young son was told, "If I need your input I'll ask for it". She ended the story saying her vet was more considerate and professional acting treating her dog then the people treating her son. I started laughing, "Of course your vet treats you well, that's because your vet is a capitalist not part of some socialized health care system." Neither one of them looked too pleased when I said that considering they spend all day creating the beast.