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To: i-node who wrote (535828)	12/11/2009 1:15:43 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576866

Asswipe, our medical system ranks 37th. Even most "conservatives" agree that it needs a major rework. All Americans do, except for industry asswipes like YOU. It's odd that I don't hear about doctor shortages in countries WITH socialized medicine, where the doctors are "underpaid". I do hear from those doctors that, although they'd like to make more, they still prefer the freedom to treat patients like people instead of profit centers in their own systems. Medicine should not be a commodity.

To: i-node who wrote (535828)	12/11/2009 2:11:46 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576866

And instead of patients "queued" up in the waiting rooms, they're "queued up" in their homes waiting for 6-18 months, waiting to GET to the waiting room. We have a shortage of doctors in this country. From zero wait to 6-18 months...wow...unless an enormous number of people are getting no care at all now, the (implied) logic and math don't work at all. Al

To: i-node who wrote (535828)	12/11/2009 3:23:11 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576866

"And instead of patients "queued" up in the waiting rooms, they're "queued up" in their homes waiting for 6-18 months, waiting to GET to the waiting room." Which is why in many countries, like Germany, the average wait time is shorter... How do you explain that?