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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (70966)	2/2/2003 11:47:17 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Is it a good comparison on health care costs.. canada has price limit on drugs.. and they also have delays in getting surgery done.. I am sure there are some other variances..Adjustments or assumptions must be made to get to true comparison of cost/benefit comparison.( for example.. if we adopt same drug policy what happen to the variance..)

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (70966)	2/2/2003 1:19:54 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

According to the OECD, in U.S. dollars, $4,631 per person was spent on health care in the United States in 2000, compared to $2,535 spent in Canada. From what I read, and from listening to our Canadian Posters here, Canada needs to go to the US figure to get the same kind of care we do. This country will never accept the type of "Rationing" that these other countries put up with. We are used to "Gourmet" Medicine. If we had a National scheme, our Politicians would soon push the cost to the size of the GNP. The Socialists among us don't like the "Salami" approach we are presently using to get a total Health scheme in place here. To messy. That want the same Totalitarian "Top Down" approach that Canada and Europe use. Hillary could not sell it. No thanks. What is going on is bad enough.