RM> What really happens is that it's too expensive so they drop the level
RM> of care for everyone so that no matter what your income you still
RM> get sub-standard care unless you choose to pay for everyone else's
RM> with your taxes and then pay for your own on top of that..

AI>In some ways we still live in the dark ages.. :) It doesn't need
  >to be that way.

I dunno.. It would be pretty easy to spend 3 or 4 times what we do
now on super-good healthcare and there's no way we can afford that.
Heck, we are basically non-profit and often 1/3 the cost charged in
the USA for procedures as it is..

I'm afraid the 'perfect world' where all this is taken care of is
the 'utopian society' version of what Socialism is supposed to be.
The trouble is, that depends on everyone being honest and treating
everyone exactly the same and that never happens in the real world
so the system falls apart. (See U.S.S.R..) If you can't get paid
more than the guy working beside you by working more then the only
way to 'come out ahead' in that system is to be as lazy as possible.

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 * SLMR Rob  * The majority is ALWAYS sane *
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