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Why We Don't Want "Free" Medical Care
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:53:26 +0000, Mike.......
wrote: Following up to (John Kulp) wrote: I wasn't talking about aircraft accidents, I was posting an article in the NY Times on UK healthcare. you were talking about *news*, dont pretend you were not. The NY Times decided it was news not me. the point was that they decided it was *news* because it was the *exception*. Maybe. I don't know their motives in doing so. Can you not understand that I simply posted it here? And why did you? I've said that twice now so I won't repeat it again. I did get, however, exactly the reaction I expected from most that responded. That is, attack me the poster when all I did was post an article from a major US newspaper that itself is pro-universal coverage in the US. And watch all the xenophobic (and uncritical) defense of the NHS as somehow a perfect system. No difference from the cheese eating US idiots is it? |
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How about explaining why the world isn't rushing headlong into
an American-style health system? Yeah irrelevant alright. And hardly isolated. Everytime I have been in the UK there's something on the BBC about cases like this. If they were so isolated, that would hardly be the case would it? The NHS is an enormous institution so of course there are always going to be problems within it. And it's the business of the media in a democratic society to discuss them. That doesn't mean anybody in their right mind wants to ditch it for such an overwhelmingly proven failure as the US model. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:13:52 +0000, Mike.......
wrote: Following up to (John Kulp) wrote: America's like what? I was just talking about my family. Another well informed libeller. it came across as "america". Only to those that wanted it to. |
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John Kulp wrote:
In the NY Times: LONDON — mega-cut He's right, it's dangerous to come to Europe! Don't! ciao, U. |
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Following up to Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote: The NHS is an enormous institution so of course there are always going to be problems within it. and the current one is one of ever more expensive drug treatments and ever longer living patients. Theres an issue to be resolved certainly, but its not one dor americans to crow about. -- Mike Remove clothing to email |
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Following up to "Turan Fettahoglu" wrote:
It is just plain rubbish if the NHS insists "either we pay what we consider appropriate or you pay the lot and we do not pay a penny". I can see a problem area around queue jumping. I see another around creeping non funding. Its something to consider with great care. -- Mike Remove clothing to email |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:17:51 +0000, Mike.......
wrote: Following up to (John Kulp) wrote: Funny, the US view of UK healthcare is supposedly unrealistic but the UK view of the US system presumbably is not. I think its fair to say that the UK gets more detailed news of the US than the US gets of Europe. Maybe but I don't know. From what I have seen here of a lot of perceptions, the detailed news isn't any more accurate of the US than is claimed here about the UK. |
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