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To: i-node who wrote (704530)	3/16/2013 12:54:37 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1573088

Even the morons like ted et al, can probably follow this explanaiton of the debt limit.... youtube.com

To: i-node who wrote (704530)	3/16/2013 1:02:27 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573088

You said people had to wait something like 32 days for an MRI in France. You can schedule one for the same day here in the States.

To: i-node who wrote (704530)	3/16/2013 1:58:24 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573088

And the level of government intervention will determine the extent to which normal market influences will work at all. As long as everyone is getting good health care it's not an issue with social medicine...it's undeniable and it repeats over and over around the world. Our system is simply one of the dumbest in the industrialized world and THAT is what will cause us financial problems. If our per-capita costs were like they are in Canada we'd have no debt issue. Al On Friday, the International Federation of Health Plans — a global insurance trade association that includes more than 100 insurers in 25 countries — released more direct evidence. It surveyed its members on the prices paid for 23 medical services and products in different countries, asking after everything from a routine doctor’s visit to a dose of Lipitor to coronary bypass surgery. And in 22 of 23 cases, Americans are paying higher prices than residents of other developed countries. Usually, we’re paying quite a bit more. The exception is cataract surgery, which appears to be costlier in Switzerland, though cheaper everywhere else. Prices don’t explain all of the difference between America and other countries. But they do explain a big chunk of it. The question, of course, is why Americans pay such high prices — and why we haven’t done anything about it. “Other countries negotiate very aggressively with the providers and set rates that are much lower than we do,” Anderson says. They do this in one of two ways. In countries such as Canada and Britain, prices are set by the government. In others, such as Germany and Japan, they’re set by providers and insurers sitting in a room and coming to an agreement, with the government stepping in to set prices if they fail.