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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (32634)	4/9/2008 11:30:45 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217830

In most countries, rationing is done by price - those who can't afford to get treatment join the beggar's line. "It is? My impression is most countries have a socialized medical system- -free entry to the state system. Perhaps you mean parallel public and private systems such as Britain or Mexico or Turkey has. In that case, yes. The more expensive private system tends to be better. I know given a choice, I pick the private system. I have but one body to lose. Some countries, such as Canada, have only a public system. In this system, you can end up waiting 3 months for corrective surgery for plantar fasciitis that makes walking impossible. Even the Canadian provincial gov'ts admit this situation exists. Or you can jump the line, head south to that evil, corrupt, overcharging capitalist system in the US and have it done a day or 2 later and be beck in Canada in less than a week. You pays your money and you takes your pick." Those who can afford it buy treatment at the going rate set by the Medical Cartels which are allowed ridiculous monopolies to keep prices high. "Okaaaaaay. You can get a job at minimum wage as a cashier right out of high school. And you won't stay at minimum wage long; statistics shows that most of these trainees will get a 10% raise within a year. Or you can follow 4 years of high school by 4 years of college in pre-med, then 4 years of med school, then a year internship. Now at this pont you can take the licensing exam and assumng you pass, begin practice as a GP. But most take a specialty residency of 3 years. Some follow this with a year or two of sub-specialty training. NOW they take the exam and begin practice. Who should be paid more: That cashier or that doc who delayed beginning his earning years by 9 years to get more education? If both are paid the same, why would ANYONE chose to become a neurologist or cardologist or pulmonolgist? And what do YOU do when you have a stroke or heart attack or severe asthma attack? Just die when it's preventable? What's YOUR solution, if not higher pay? Draft 'em, order them to take the training, then order them to treat the civilian population? Isn't this why slavery was made illegal?" More people would get more treatment, of higher quality, cheaper, safer, faster and more considerately, if the cartels were deregulated and businesses competed for customers as they do in changing oil, making cars, selling computers, flying aircraft and cutting hair. "So you would allow your auto mechanic to operate on your brain?????" There would be Apple Medicine as well as Apple Computer. They'd compete with Firestone Fitness, Shell Sutures, Linux Livers, Bank of America Blood, Xerox Xrays. They would make sure patients were not killed in the process. Imagine how long a brand would last if they sent patients away dead due to negligence. In the present systems, doctors bury their mistakes and there's no consequence. In the USA there is medical malpractice insurance but it doesn't damage a major brand which is the real way to ensure quality control. "You SEVERELY underestimate the power of advertising and a good PR agency. Oh, what do you Kiwis do with your incompetent docs? Don't tell me you have none." An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. "Only if you believe 'Sleeping Beauty'."