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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (271629)	11/20/2009 3:13:03 PM
From: bacchus_ii	Respond to of 281500

RE:" I didn't follow the debate much, but from what I gathered, most of the fears were around concerns that a hybrid system would allow doctors to pick and choose patients and that the best ones would move to private practice." Yes it's a big debate here in Québec, the theme being 2 speeds or 2 class of service: one for the rich and one for the poor. The side effect of the private service is it slows the public service even slower because of lack of doctor due to those that goes to the private system. What the private system want is for the cost being paid by the public plus an extra paid by the client. The gov accept that deal on a small set of intervention when the waiting list is too long in the public system for a given specific health problem listed by the gov. The problem is, every time an item is added to the list it increase the number of doctors that pass to the private system, etc and all leaking of the public system... Having both system lead to corruption and abuse... no matter the system you use. I've not talk yet of the doctor free education here in Canada.... It was ok as long as it is keeping the doctor salary as low as possible.... but with the time, when too many goes to private system or cross the border to USA the injustice exasperate us. Also, consider the fact that for every doctor the university output, the government got to expect one million or so yearly bill that this doctor will generate and then: since the health care budget, witch is the biggest for the provinces, is limited only by controlling the number of place in university... you imagine the result... hummmm No matter the system, as long as doctor and pharmaco are in full control of the health-care monopoly, there is no solution and they will be the most profitable business in the world. They are God any time our health or live are in danger. No matter how the science can discover a cheap way to save millions of life, they will be the mafia well established between us and the treatment. Bacc