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From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 07:18 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message > > > > Her view is that for ordinary medical care there > > should be no insurance. There should be insurance > > in cases where medical care becomes financially > > catestrophic for median income people. > > > > This would keep routine and ordinary medical care > > affordable to everyone. That's pretty much how things > > were when she and I were kids. > > Ahh, the good-old-days argument. Well, you might be interested to know > that, in those halcyon days, doctors didn't make more than 10X the national > average income. Things have changed since then, and in ways that we cannot > go back. But the, you've got yours, so why should you care if anyone else > gets proper care? In the 'good old days' cancer was a death sentence. Today most forms are very treatable with good outcomes. Same is true for many other conditions. Thank goodness the 'good old days' are no longer with us. Graham
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 07:20 T Wake wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > unsettled wrote: > > > >> Tell us, have you ever actually complained to > >> one department of government about another? Have > >> you ever tried to sue the government? > > > > The NHS get sued over here sometimes when things go wrong as of course > > they occasionally do in any organisation. > > > > It's not difficult at all. And it doesn't involve suing the government > > either, another daft idea you just invented. > > I have complained about various departments in the government on several > occasions. No problem with it at all. I provide a contract service to the > government and if they breach it, I wouldn't hesitate to take legal action. > > Unsettled seems to think the US government is inherently corrupt and that it > is not responsive to the will of the people. Odd really, as I thought the US > was a democracy. It [the USA] would appear to be a murky place with little accountability. They need to learn a few things from us. Graham
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 07:22 JoeBloe wrote: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:06:17 -0000, "T Wake" > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us: > > > >Unsettled seems to think the US government is inherently corrupt and that it > >is not responsive to the will of the people. Odd really, as I thought the US > >was a democracy. > > The fact that you do not *know* tells a lot about just how little > you do know about the world, much less corruption in it, or the lack > thereof. Whereas you 'know' what you've been told / indoctrinated to believe. Graham
From: unsettled on 25 Nov 2006 07:52 krw wrote: > In article <ek7mtp$9d2$4(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu > says... >>The US has never tried socialism. > Yes, it most certainly has! What do you think the "New Deal" and > "The GFreat Society" were other than utterly failed attempts at > socialism. ...not to mention the coming failure of Social > Security. When Kennedy was running for the presidency, he visited Warm Springs. My first thought was here's a guy who is trying to ride Roosevelt's wheelchair into the White House. He followed in other ways as well.
From: jmfbahciv on 25 Nov 2006 07:58
In article <4565BAEA.9E69351C(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >unsettled wrote: >> > >> >> NHS has not >> >> yet withstood the test of time. Wake me up in a few more >> >> decades. >> > >> >60 years is enough to prove the point imho. >> >> You still have a private system in place. So the NHS >> does not work to the exclusion of other methods. > >So ? I'm not sure what your point is. Private health care >in the UK is for the >most part a 'luxury' service for those who can afford it. What is a luxury service? Timely treatment? Treatment when needed? No public waiting lines? /BAH |