Lennart Sorensen wrote:
In other words, the people who have a choice whether to accept the quality and wait times associated with health care in the government system, don't. That doesn't make you pause to think, even a tiny bit?On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:07:47AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:If it's higher-quality, how do the Canadian companies who broker access to American doctors for Canadians tired of their crappy care manage to make a profit?Because some people with a lot of money and no patience will pay for anything.
If you can't let go of that nutty socialism-is-good-for-the-people meme, try thinking of it this way instead:
government monopoly on health care = microsoft/your goliath of choice free market health care = open source...and now we can all feel good about discussing politics on debian-curiosa. ;)
-- hp3