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

To: skinowski who wrote (8916)	9/1/2009 7:33:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Notice how there are chains of supermarkets, tyre companies, petrol stations, taxis and all sorts which provide non-emergency 24 hour care. I'm not sure why there isn't an Exxon of medicine with chains of 24 hours hospitals and various medical services with quality control, all sorts of specialists, and the whole panoply of large scale business. Lives are so much more valuable than tyres, soft drinks and petrol that it seems they would be treated better. While it's good to have a doctor's cellphone for emergency use, sometimes even doctors need to have a shower, go out for dinner with the phone off, are sick and need somebody else to take the call, or are attending a funeral [hopefully not for one of the patients, or their own one]. I should start a medical business with great customer service. Unfortunately, that's illegal. I can sell soft drinks and cigarettes - governments are happy with lots of sellers of those and plenty of competition. The problem is the governments legalizing monopolies. <Having good, mutually respectful relationships with one's... customers is good... capitalism. Must be harder to do this if the doc works not for a multitude of bosses - the patients - but for one single boss, a Tsar in Washington. > I always made sure my customers were looked after and I had a single corporate boss. Mqurice