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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fresc who wrote (228)	1/17/2005 1:49:45 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The median expected salary for a typical Surgeon in the United States is $222,257. swz.salary.com Tell me: How many OTHER jobs pay that? In the US or Canada? You really think they're going to leave an upper middle class standard of living behind for paperwork that is largely handled by others? Gee, maybe you don't know how things work here, having never left Canada, but when you deal with a doctor's office about billing and insurenace matters, you don't talk to the doc. Sometimes you don't even talk to his office. He hires a separate billing service to handle such things. Maybe you haven't heard about this either: American TV "news magazines" have been to exaggerate matters and sometimes outright lie. Remember Dan Rather recently? There was also a little matter of one of them being successfully sued by an American auto company because they televised "tests" showing one of their vehicles exploding- -except they had rigged it to do just that. Maybe you need to quit reading SI and watching TV and find out what's going on in the real world.

To: fresc who wrote (228)	1/17/2005 2:15:06 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

SOmewhere you made a comment about the Canadian legal system and Canadian pharmaceutical companies. My computer crashed when I tried to reply. This is that reply: Then you have a superior legal system. Can we borrow it? :-) I haven't found figures to back this, but supposedly part of the reason for the difference in drug prices between the US and Canada is that legal sytem: The manufacturers don't face the same legal risks selling in Canada. Now that does have a downside: they don't get stung as hard for screw ups. Or just plain human mistakes. But it does mean they can sell the drugs at a lower cost and more people who need the drug can get it. Regardless of whether a multi-payer or single payer system is used. Idiot lawsuits make it through the US legal system all the time, mainly because it is often cheaper for a manufacturer to settle even a silly suit than pay millions fighting it through the courts. As I suggested to Suma, if you want to criticize the US tort system, maybe you need to take on geode00 on Compendium. He thinks it's PERFECT. Now about those Canadian pharamceutical companies: name them. Google knoweth them not.