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To: regli who wrote (52436)	2/2/2006 2:39:27 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 110194

Access and the payment process in the US are an atrocity. Those who have adequate insurance or are too young to understand the consequences of the existing system are all but completely out of touch with the horrors of the sick and the uninsured. Worst of all, the health care of last resort that is pitifully rationed to tens of millions of people is provided through the most wasteful and least useful channel available -- the emergency room.

To: regli who wrote (52436)	2/2/2006 2:44:01 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Not that I am advocating the Canadian system, but it too has always allowed patients to choose physicians and the treatment facility as a matter of course. The big problem, as with all other systems, is the exploding cost of health services, which are increasing at a far greater rate than CPI or even the GDP. Governments hate to forever increase taxes, and thus, in Canada, they are looking at some private healthcare involvement of some kind to take some load off the public medicare system. As far as I am concerned, you pay Peter or you pay Paul, or both.