Re: Delphi 2005 is here, apparently no benefit of the cheap dollar..

From: Nick Hodges [TeamB] (nickhodges_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: 3 Dec 2004 20:37:03 -0800

Jim Cooper wrote:

> Sorry, but that is demonstrably not true.

Really? Can you show me a government run health care system that
doesn't have rationing? I'll answer that: no, you can't.

> It's a myth that US conservatives seem to take as axiomatic, but
> public health systems in a number of countries work very well.

I suppose that is true if you alter the definition of "well". Waiting
a year for an MRI, or waiting in pain for six months for a knee
replacement as my mother-in-law did (and then having the doctors screw
it up with no legal recourse on her part) is not working "well" by my
definition.

> It's one of those strange beliefs some Americans have, which seem so
> odd to outsiders.

Yep, thinking that people dying years early because cancer was detected
late after waiting a year for an MRI is a bad thing is pretty weird,
huh. :-\ 

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Nick Hodges -- TeamB
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