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    Lee Gordon  wrote:   
      
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   > > HEAD: CANADA RECONSIDERING HEALTH CARE MODEL IN FACE OF SOARING COSTS   
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   > Why not pretend that the USA faces an even worse problem as a result of its   
   > inefficient private system with multiple insurers and high drug costs?   
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   > Canada spends 10% of GDP on health compared to the United   
   > State's 16%.  Per-capita that works out to US$3,895 for Canadians versus   
   > S$7,290 for Americans.  Why do Americas want to spend double for an   
   > inferior system?   
      
   For many reasons that this Democrat leadership never addressed.  For   
   instance, unlike Canada, we have ambulance chasers trying to make a buck   
   at every turn.  These lawsuits cost doctors up to $300,000 per year for   
   malpractice insurance.  Doctors have opted to use "defensive medicine"   
   which is estimated to cost American consumers over 100 billion dollars   
   per year; the same amount of money Osama wants to steal from the rich to   
   provide unproductive citizens with equal healthcare.   
      
   So what is defensive medicine?  Defensive medicine is where a doctor   
   runs you through every possible test to insure him or herself from a   
   possible lawsuit.  Years ago, you went to your doctor because your ear   
   hurt.  The doctor would examine you and send you on your way with   
   medication or suggested further analysis.  Today, your doctor sends you   
   to a specialist because he wants to pass off the possible liability to   
   the specialist.  In many cases, you now have to see three or four   
   doctors before your ailment is remedied unlike years ago where you only   
   had to see one.   
      
   Unions throughout the years played a part as well.  People who would   
   screw bolts into an engine block, or delivered packages for UPS made   
   just as much as an RN and close to the salary of a pharmacist.  Younger   
   people realized what a bad investment it was to educate themselves in a   
   medical career.  They saved themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars   
   by taking a union job instead.  So how do we attract people to the   
   medical profession?  We had to start paying them much more than these   
   $55,000 per year union jobs.   
      
   Then we have various factors such as state mandates on minimal   
   insurance. State regulations that prohibit competition.  These states   
   require that only insurance companies who have offices in their state be   
   allowed to offer insurance.  Less competition--higher price.  Medicare   
   and Medicaid only pay part of the bill for their patients.  In order for   
   doctors and hospitals to recover the losses on these patients, they   
   increase the price of patients with private insurance which increases   
   the premium on all of us.   
      
   I can go on and on, but the bottom line is that our healthcare is so   
   expensive because of government.  So what did this administration do???   
   They inserted even more government.   
      
   Texas passed tort reform in their state.  Doctors are flooding the area   
   to practice medicine there.  In fact, doctors are increasing larger by   
   percentage than the actual population in Texas. But this administration   
   refuses to look at cost cutting factors, and instead, use this as an   
   opportunity to have more government control.   
      
   --   
   Barock Insane Obama: The greatest joke America ever played on itself.   
      
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