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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:56:20 -0600
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From: ellerd@stx.rr.com
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To: ultrasound@mail.obgyn.net
Subject: Re: Important PBS series in March
Forgive me for not watching "Sicko", but did they show the average Cuban clinic? Or did they show a hospital for touristas or Cuban officials?
And the statement below disturbs me some, very subjective in nature. Can we mention how superior it is in many ways also? As broken
as our system may be, I would prefer to pay out the nose for healthcare and still receive it than to have it rationed to me, or it not be
available to me at all due to budget constraints and tax evasion. Not insinuating that anyone here has used this term but, the whole term
"free" healthcare bothers me as well. It isn't free when you pay for it on the front end.
I'm much more inclined to support a system say where children under 18, seniors over age 65, and the mentally ill are provided for. Would it
work? Not with the present tax and welfare system. Do you think a switch to tax payer funded healthcare would be feasible at this point?
Probably not. Are you willing to give up a sizeable portion of your pay and benefits to fund it? Somehow I don't believe it will happen any
time soon.
Good hard numbers in this discussion would be helpful in demonstrating the disparities of the systems, and at that point I think it should
be determined by the individual which they feel is more advantageous or more broken. Do I have those numbers? Nope, sorry. I hope those
proponents of the tax payer funded healthcare system would have it...after all it sounds all warm and fuzzy, but I've never seen real numbers
put to paper that would convince me that it is all that it seems to be.
JMHO,
Shelley
We all know that our system is inferior in many ways to these other systems
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:56:20 -0600
From: ellerd@stx.rr.com
To: ultrasound@mail.obgyn.net
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Re: Important PBS series in March
Forgive me for not watching "Sicko", but did they
show the average Cuban clinic? Or did they show a hospital for touristas or
Cuban officials?
And the statement below disturbs me some, very
subjective in nature. Can we mention how superior it is in many ways also? As
broken
as our system may be, I would prefer to pay out
the nose for healthcare and still receive it than to have it rationed to me,
or it not be
available to me at all due to budget constraints
and tax evasion. Not insinuating that anyone here has used this term but, the
whole term
"free" healthcare bothers me as well. It isn't
free when you pay for it on the front
end.
I'm much more inclined to support a system say
where children under 18, seniors over age 65, and the mentally ill are
provided for. Would it
work? Not with the present tax and welfare
system. Do you think a switch to tax payer funded healthcare would be feasible at this point?
Probably not. Are you willing to give up a
sizeable portion of your pay and benefits to fund it? Somehow I don't believe it will happen any
time soon.
Good hard numbers in this discussion would be
helpful in demonstrating the disparities of the systems, and at that point I
think it should
be determined by the individual which they feel
is more advantageous or more broken. Do I have those numbers? Nope, sorry. I
hope those
proponents of the tax payer funded
healthcare system would have it...after all it sounds all warm and
fuzzy, but I've never seen real numbers
put to paper that would convince me that it is
all that it seems to be.
JMHO,
Shelley
We all know that our system is inferior in many ways to
these other systems
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