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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of eldercare in the US
  • Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:58:43 EDT

I don't really have much of dog in this fight, Drew, as I don't need anyone
to 'care' for my health and I'd quite frankly just as soon die as muck with
the modern medical morass. But I've paid attention to this and I find that
all that is being bandied about is misinformation:


> > If you like a socialist system where the govt. controls and doles,
> that is fine.

Where would this be? It certainly isn't Canada. It is a "socialist"
insurance system, not a socialist medical system. We are told here that in
Canada, Britain, and many other European countries that there are boards and
gatekeepers that sit in judgement on the individual patients approving this
treatment and denying that. Turns out that's all fabrication. It's not the
way
their systems work.


>If you want > like and
> choose levels of coverage and doctors, you should be able to.
>
Again my question: "Where would this be??" It certainly isn't in the US.
The US is a fascist system where the medical industry uses the government to
conrol and enforce its monoply. There are no real choices and no real
competition.

Notice in your above observaion that you want a system where you choose
your doctor. We've had Canadians on this list assert that they are free to
choose whichever doctor they wish, and yet we hear this mantra repeated over
and over again that under a unversal systems you don't get to choose your
doctor. I am not hopeful that anything meaningful is going to come over the
whole 'heath care' debate. It could if both sides would take a few minutes
to
examine what they are saying, check the facts, and then raise objections on
the REAL shortcomings of all the medical delivery systems. But when we have
people mindlessly droning on about how in universal coverage systems, no
one one gets to choose their doctor and taking five shots of reality to the
head doesn't make the flinch even a little, I think very little will come of
all this blather.


James





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