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To: LoneClone who wrote (8196)	3/20/2006 8:16:43 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

Not cheaper, nor lower cost. You have to pay for OHIP and it is as much as or more than private health insurance and the end cost to the taxpayer is much higher -- as the insurance payment is only a fraction of the cost. Many employers have opted out of paying a portion of the cost and do not deduct from the employees, leaving them to fend for themselves. The service only works, to a degree for people who have a competent family physician and can get referrals. This is rare when it does apply and only could apply in part to the 33% of the people in the country who fit a certain healthy pre middle aged demographic and who have family doctors. The rest have to depend on walk in clinics who do less than adequate work and have no memory. In other words patient history which is all important is not in their mind at all. The actual service is based on a minimalist basis due to a statistical approach (instead of on need or case by case), and what the under doctored health care service can afford in time and money. Which isn't much. Checkups for over fifties are once per year, perhaps 20 minutes. Testing is only done where symptoms are gross and manifest, often too late. Cancer can kill within one year and often does. Medical science is money driven and woefully inadequate. We die of cancer and heart disease 10 times more than do Greenland Eskimos and Okinawan peasants. What do they know that all our science and modern technology does not? And no, it is not genetic. That much has been more or less proven. EC<:-}