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To: Lane3 who wrote (76297)	7/25/2008 2:25:05 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543340

>>France is private practitioner based, IIRC. And France is the second most costly system, next to ours. Their parliament has been looking at various cutbacks and controls because of their concern over growth. I don't know how their private practitioners get their IV tubes, whether they have middlemen or not. Do you know for sure they have no profit-making middlemen distributors? They may not, but then they're a lot smaller than we are, which is a factor. Distribution in, say NY, is a lot more immediate than in the US. As for "real solution," I would be curious about what you consider that to mean.<< Karen - The part of the French system I would want to emulate is the part where people do have the choice to pay extra and get premium care. When I talk about a "real solution" I am talking about one that actually reduces overall costs. Changing which insurer pays the bills, and whether that insurer is public or private, won't affect costs except as related to the costs of the insurance company itself. I think we'd need a hybrid of the English and French systems to make the whole thing work, with a splash of the Canadian. Don't ask me exactly how that would work. I have no idea. - Allen