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

To: TimF who wrote (5615)	5/19/2008 1:34:15 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Personal note: Just had orthoscopic surgery for torn knee cartilage at a clinic this morning and am back home. In past weeks, had an MRI, blood tests, EKG, Cardiogram, and stress test for pre-op requirements - the last four probably either defensive medicine or precautions given my being in my late 50's and having had no medical treatment in adulthood except for a few broken bones and minor infections and flu bouts. Everything scheduled within a few days - no waiting.

To: TimF who wrote (5615)	5/19/2008 4:49:43 PM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

A very sad anecdote Tim, and the real rub comes right at the end of the piece that cuts to the heart of the problem. If America covered all of its citizens health care needs, there would be waiting lists just like in Canada...so what would Canadians do? Presently in America, for the 50 million or so people without healthcare coverage..do you really believe there are no horror stories like the one linked to Canada?? The odds say that there are plenty, so these problems are universal and as you pointed out before,, anecdotes don't solve the problems in healthcare..but looking seriously at what other countries are doing and adopting the successful policies from them, would be a start.