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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (18950)	8/25/2010 8:24:03 AM
From: dybdahl	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

When Denmark's socialised health care was at it most socialised state, there was special treatment of some VIPs. Officially, the hospitals were simply "flexible" to adapt to "special needs", but I would be very surprised if the hospitals didn't give these VIPs better treatments and access to better doctors. I think it still works that way. A good example could be Mærsk, the son of the founder of the Mærsk ship company that bought U.S. Sealand some years ago. He has arranged sponsorship of new helicopter-pads for the largest state-owned Copenhagen hospital, so it would be a huge surprise if they wouldn't treat him very well. It is a general rule, in any health care system, that you need to motivate doctors to do their best. It can be done in many ways, money is one, but in socialised systems other methods are applied. I guess this is one of the reasons why Denmark no longer wants a 100% socialised health care system.