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

To: Don Hurst who wrote (13267)	2/4/2010 2:20:41 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Journalist and PBS talk show host Charlie Rose will be back on the air Monday night, fully recovered from the dangerous heart surgery he underwent in March. The 64-year-old host was making his way to Syria where he was to interview the president. His trip was cut short when he began experiencing shortness of breath in Paris, ultimately spending a month in the hospital to replace a mitral valve with a pig-heart valve. It is his second pig-heart valve replacement. "There was some real question as to whether I would survive," Rose said. "He (the surgeon) said to me it was very close...I never thought at any point, myself, that I was going to die." he didn't have time to fly to the States. nice try though

To: Don Hurst who wrote (13267)	2/4/2010 6:13:03 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Maybe some people expect to have a simple procedure take six hours. I would count the way the NHS system allocates human resources as a negative for quality of care perception. Lazarus Long didn't state whether the NHS collected for the procedure these days. Rose could have easily flown back to NYC vs Paris. He went to Paris because the treatment for his condition was better. I believe he remained (or returned if you believe that version) in Paris because it was closer and tansportation / delay caused greater risk than quality of care. I doubt if the treatment for any medical condition is better in Paris than in the US. Certainly if there are a handful of things a few clinics in Paris do better than most in NY it is not a significant list.