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Pastimes : US Health Care System: Prognosis and Cure -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: redfish who wrote (3)6/13/2005 4:10:56 PM
From: ~digs  Respond to of 17
 
compare and contrast ... US vs. Brit health care system : opinionjournal.com

We spent almost a full month in a British public hospital. We also arranged for a complex medical procedure to be done in one of the few remaining private hospitals in Britain. My wife then spent about three weeks recuperating in a New York City hospital as an inpatient and has since used another city hospital for physical therapy as an outpatient. We thus have had a chance to sample the health diet available under two very different systems of health care. Neither system is without its faults and advantages. To paraphrase Thomas Sowell, there are no solutions to modern health care problems, only trade-offs. What follows is a sampling of those tradeoffs as we viewed them firsthand.