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To: Eric who wrote (17378)	2/11/2010 1:33:19 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

see first hand how other countries in the Western World take care of their citizens. OT: I know how they take care of their citizens. In France they all left on holiday while their parents died of heat stroke a few summers ago. I have a friend in the UK whose mother has cancer and their "public health" won't supply her with a new (expensive) drug treatment that could save her life. When Canadians want the best available medical procedures and want them now, they head for the US border. Public health works for cuts and bruises, but inevitably necessitates rationing for expensive treatments and/or long term conditions. We'll all kick the bucket eventually, so pick your poison in the meantime..

To: Eric who wrote (17378)	2/11/2010 4:54:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

My boss came back to TX from Calgary a couple years ago because it was going to take him 6 months to get an MRI for a back problem he had. The guy in the office next to mine is an ethnic Russian. Another coworker just returned from overseas after having a health emergency in Kazakhstan and having to go in a hospital there. A few years back we had an employee working in Malaysia come down with something - I'd have to dig through old email archives to remember what. They put him in the best hospital in KL but couldn't do anything for him, finally the company had a corporate jet with health care folks on it fly out to get him but he died on the plane returning. I work with and have worked for years with Nigerians, people from Chad, Angola, Liberia, Russia, Venezuela, Scotland, Australia, Malaysia, and a bunch of other places and have never heard a single bitch about America's "crappy" health care system. I only read about that from liberals on the internet. I have heard coworkers of foreign origin say that Americans don't know how good they have it ... but I think they were talking about a lot more than just our health care.