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   XPost: can.politics, ab.general, ab.politics   
   From: someone@somewhere.net   
      
   simplicity wrote:   
   > On Mar 7, 8:00 pm, Roy  wrote:   
   >> Well Birdie, it was up to the AB Health pipples to put up the money   
   >> for Pankow's drugs...THEY dropped the ball. They don't really want to   
   >> spend money for our system as THEY want to starve it down so that WE   
   >> will go for private for profit health. WE don't want them to do this.   
   >> It is a fight that WE will win. We don't want people to go into debt   
   >> to survive. YOU should support US in OUR struggle.   
   >> ==   
   >   
   > Well Roy, if you believe it is all some sort of giant conspiracy by   
   > the bureaucracy then fight them not me. We would not have had this   
   > discussion had Pankow received the services he needed. We would not   
   > have had this discussion had my husband received the services related   
   > to prostate cancer diagnosis without having to pay for them. We would   
   > not have had this discussion had my close friend received the   
   > treatment for a form of skin cancer immediately after he was   
   > diagnosed, not whole 8 months after the fact.   
   >   
   > You see, this "Canadian system", as you call it, is nothing more than   
   > a gigantic project run by the government. And, honestly, I cannot name   
   > one one projects run by them, big or small, which would not become a   
   > epic screwup.   
   >   
   > I am sorry, Roy but I do not believe in government fixing what   
   > government screws up. And if you agree to eliminate the government   
   > from the health care equation what's left?   
   >   
   on this, I have to agree that we COULD do better- we might look at   
   Norway, or Sweden..... and while Japan's system is not too different   
   from ours, our hospitals are so far apart and all of our cities likewise   
   spread out over a vast distance, having the same number of MRI's is   
   problematic, to say nothing of the distance one must go in rural areas   
   to see a doctor.   
   Geographical features and the distances this imposes on cost of   
   healthcare delivery, is significant, in contrast to Japan's.   
      
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