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

To: Road Walker who wrote (2345)	10/26/2007 10:00:57 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

That says little or nothng about the overall quality of pedestrian (insured and uninsured) medical care in the two countries. I agree as for wealthy patients, but what middle class patients do says a lot. Middle class patients do come here for access and other markers of quality. Our middle class patients get their standard care at home. 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. I agree with that as well. But even if we had your system, our costs could never compete with India or Thailand and the tourism would continue. Your system would not pay for the procedures in question any more than the current one does so folks would get them where they cost less. The relative cost of an appendectomy isn't a factor in tourism.