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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (186465)	5/11/2006 12:21:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You are right, those are difficult things to determine: <can you really judge how long it should have taken you to recover and if all the right procedures were fallowed?> In the state-run systems, there is no way to tell and being a monopoly, they are answerable only to themselves and the self-dealing medical guild. In private systems, competition, which there would be a lot of, would mean consultants could advise on expected outcomes, and advertizing would compare products, services and results. The customer would be king, not some government bureaucrat. <I am a libertarian at heart, but many libertarians I come across seem to have been blinded to the realities by their ideology.> Maybe you have been blinded by yours. I don't know. I can only deal with what you write. I find most people are obdurate about their beliefs, and even when reasoned with, or confronted with actual facts, hold true to their beliefs as though they are part of what they are. It has to do with ego. They are insecure, territorial and need to hold true to what the priest/alpha male/Dear Leader have told them or fall out of favour with the group, which is a bad thing to do in tribal jungle rule biology. Mqurice