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To: Lane3 who wrote (105936)	3/11/2009 10:12:35 AM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541791

"My Canadian girlfriend reports......." I'm withholding judgment on France, til you hear from your French girlfriend. <g>

To: Lane3 who wrote (105936)	3/11/2009 1:15:06 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541791

>>It never occurred to me that they didn't treat emergencies as emergencies. If there's blood gushing, they're not going to queue you up for next Thursday. (Just like in the US they don't queue you up for next Thursday because you don't have insurance.) But there have been stories about people adversely affected by the shortage of scanning equipment, for example. << Karen - Consider also that there are plenty of stories about people adversely affected by various aspects of our healthcare system, too. Canadians, Brits, and Swedes (among many others) never face financial ruin because of medical bills. They do not suffer from the stress of worrying about how to pay medical bills. My own recent experiences leave me feeling that they've got better systems than ours, if only just for that reason. - Allen