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

To: Lane3 who wrote (2344)	10/26/2007 7:51:20 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

re: The tourism is for different reasons. One is for quality, particularly timeliness. Not sure about timeliness, but I agree some is for quality. If a very wealthy person in, say, Sweden needs a life saving procedure and the best rated Doctor for that specialty is in the US, he is likely to come to the US. If it's a wealthy US patient, and the best doctor is in Sweden, the US patient is likely to go to Sweden. That says little or nothng about the overall quality of pedestrian (insured and uninsured) medical care in the two countries. But medical tourism for cost does have a place in this discussion, because cost is a critical part of the benefit of a single payer, universal system.