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To: i-node who wrote (489521)	6/20/2009 11:45:30 PM
From: bentway	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1571798

"Where do the Saudi Royals come when they need medical treatment?" Thailand?

To: i-node who wrote (489521)	6/21/2009 12:21:26 AM
From: Nicholas Thompson	2 Recommendations Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1571798

Snookered real bad, of 18 industrialized countries US is last or 18th in average healthy life expectancy , but is first in per capita health expenditures and first by a long shot in health expenditures as a % of GDP. This says it all and most of the BS on the media is not addressing these or related points which clearly show our health care system in crisis. I hate to say it but it is in large measure because we treat patients too much like profit centers. Why, pray tell, should so many people in the health care field make millions of dollars a year. Our main problem is what I call entrepreneural medicine, all the rest of the issues stem from this approach to health care in our country. Business is great and has made our country strong; but we need to treat people for outcomes not to make money.

To: i-node who wrote (489521)	6/21/2009 6:40:42 AM
From: SARMAN	Respond to of 1571798

Oh, and by the way. Where do the Saudi Royals come when they need medical treatment? They do not need to come. They recruit the best doctors from N-A for their socialist system.