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To: ManyMoose who wrote (310025)	6/15/2009 1:03:22 PM
From: average joe	2 Recommendations Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 793575

"Everybody knows he wants a Canada-like system where people wait months for a doctor's appointment--if they don't die first." That is completely false. In Canada if you can afford it you can drive to the Mayo clinic in Rochester for treatment. Where Canada fails in treating patients is diagnostic medicine. Most Canadians that die waiting for treatment do so in the backlog of diagnostics. The backlog in diagnostics has proven to be a great cost saving tool for the system.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (310025)	6/15/2009 1:28:07 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793575

Thanks - listened to the last few minutes. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out. I don't trust politicians. Anything they'll pass will be clumsy, ineffective, no fun - and not cheap. One thing that it will definitely accomplish is make government more relevant and powerful. For example, he mentioned - among a ton of other teleprompted numbers - that he will "save" some huge amount of money (on something) - and this sum will go to "hospitals that need it most". There we go -- this will right away require a battalion of bureaucrat "experts" to distribute the money in question. Maybe I should write to the Prez and ask for a job. Mine is getting too hard.