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To: combjelly who wrote (536027)	12/12/2009 12:30:38 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578128

>> >When you are shown you are FOS, you try to change the subject. Actually, I'm simply pointing out that if one is willing to deliver inferior care waiting lines can be eliminated. A primary care doc in America seeing 30-50 p/d can deliver excellent health care. A German physician "must routinely see 70 or more patients per day, and may be penalized retroactively for exceeding their quota of prescriptions or services by having to pay for them out of their own pockets" according to an article in the Internist (I found no other information that would contradict this; perhaps you can). If the United States suddenly required physicians to see 70 patients a day, everyone could get an appointment immediately. My doc scheduling physicians in July would see his backlog dry up instantly -- but the 1 hour or so he spends with you during a physical would necessarily drop, too. End result: Inferior care. At 70 patients a day we'd have no waiting lines but we would undoubtedly have higher rates of disease, lower cure rates, more chronic illness, etc. Instead of 50 or 60% better cancer cure rates than German, we might well have no better results than Germany (of course, some of this is attributable to other aspects of the American systems which are so much better than Germany's and all other countries in the world). There is no free ride.