From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 12/22/25 07:57, Bob Tennent wrote:   
   > On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:54:45 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   >   > On 12/21/25 21:17, Bob Tennent wrote:   
   >   >> On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   >>   > On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >   >>   >   
   >   >>   >> That alone makes it way better than privately insured and   
   delivered.   
   >   >>   >> health services.   
   >   >>   >   
   >   >>   > But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be   
   better   
   >   >>   > than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against   
   >   >>   > everything that America Stands For??!??   
   >   >>   
   >   >> Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run   
   >   >> by doctors and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and   
   >   >> hospitals but doesn't "run" them.   
   >   >   
   >   >    Still doesn't do much good though ... subsidizing   
   >   >    incompetence doesn't IMPROVE things.   
   >   
   > American health costs are higher than anywhere in the world   
   > because of insurance administration. Yet outcomes are worse.   
   > Doesn't sound like incompetence to me.   
      
   	Sounds like in the USA we need to socialize, not medicine and patient   
   care, but insurance and take the profit to the insurers out of it.   
      
   	But then in the US Military Services health care is free to service   
   members   
   and their families.  It is paid for out of the budget of the Defense   
   Department.   
   If that is not the situation we want to enjoy then we should keep things   
   as they   
   are.  If it sounds desirable maybe everyone should enlist or just vote   
   to pay   
   some more taxes if we are working to pay for healthcare for everyone.   
      
   	Oh and we have a movement called Medicare for All that you might   
   want to learn more about.  I have Medicare and at 88 have to report   
   that in 2025 it has repaired my ankle and kept me in rehab facility for   
   about 2.5 months.  I got out of the hospital on April 11tg.  Then I noted   
   a bump on my nose that would not heal and it was basal cell carcinoma   
   and I had to go to a Dermatological Surgeon and she worked very hard   
   to make sure that all the cancer was gone.  Right now I have a bunch   
   of stitches in my face and on my nose where a skin graft from my face   
   was done.  Not one bit of fun in a long long day of cut, check the slice   
   for cancer and then slice again, then stitch up the whole mess, with   
   tons of local anesthetic injections.  All on Medicare which is socialized   
   insurance for old folks like myself.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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