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9 Oct 2024 08:21:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Can anyone explain America's opposition to national health care?  
From: andrel
Date: 14 Aug 2009 15:06:09
Message: <4A85B5A2.6000009@hotmail.com>
On 14-8-2009 0:24, somebody wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
> news:4a847bbd$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>> Those in favour of continuing private insurance, in my view, overlook
>> that public health is, by definition, a public concern.  If we don't take
>> care of individuals who get sick because they don't have insurance, we
>> risk infecting everyone else.
> 
> I think people on all sides miss the real issues. Health care doesn't 
> magically become better or worse because it's public or private. Health care 
> in both USA and Canada stinks, and the latter is public (and arguably stinks 
> more, since well to do Canadians rely on USA for their timely health care 
> needs). Granted, the private vs public or how much of each is a major 
> decision, but the quality is all in the implementation, economy, management, 
> logistics... etc. 
> 
> 

obligatory ted reference:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/allison_hunt_gets_a_new_hip.html


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