Re: A single health care payer for the US ? ( Long)

From: Kathi Wilson, BHSc, RM (wilsonk@gtn.net)
Sun Jan 23 07:51:12 2000


At Sat, 22 Jan 2000, John Robertson MD wrote: >
>except for the truism I have learned that anything run by a government
>will be less successful than if it is run by the private sector.

Hmm. Guess that depends on how you define "success" -- for businesses, that usually means "profit", not "customer satisfaction". Mike Harris has been off-loading stuff down here, with no appreciable improvement to customers.

Look at lots of big companies....do they really provide models for management success? Don't think I want the Eaton Bros to be running *my* healthcare system, thank you very much ;^). And funny how, like Chrysler did a few years ago (and the NHL now), they all go running to government to bail them out when the going gets rough.

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Kathi Wilson, BHSc, RM
Thames Valley Midwives,
London, Ontario, Canada
mailto:wilsonk@gtn.net
http://tvm.on.ca




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