From: "John Beamish" 

You are being selective in your reading.  You called British medicine
socialist ... I was pointing out that there is a healthy 
segment that is quite capitalist.

As for rich Canadians heading south ... when Tom and June (good friends of
V) head south for the winter they have to buy US medical insurance so that
(as has happened) when they need medical care they can be treated.  The
rich aren't forced to leave the country for medical care:  they are taking
appropriate prudent measures to cover the financial burden for those
occasions when they do need it outside Canada.  There are, no doubt,
occasions when people electively choose to use US medical facilities for
treatment.  It's always big news here -- particularly in the National Post
-- but it's because it's a variation from the norm and nothing more.

As for your 1.07 years difference .. that's between the capitalistic US and
the /capitalist/socialist UK.  When you look at the differences between the
capitalist US and the socialist Canada the gap grows to 1.84 years.

As for what I'm saying, again you are being rather disingenuous,
tendentiously so, it would appear.

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:48:41 -0500, Mark  wrote:

>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.toaewdckm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> Harley street physicians.  I don't care how good your insurance plan is
>> ... you can't afford them.  IOW ... it ain't socialist medicine.
>
> ???, so you're saying the rich can go wherever they want, with Harley
> Street
> being the desired destination? While the peons die in the dirty hallways
> of
> the socialized hospitals in the slums in other areas of  the UK?
>
> If so (and I very well may still not get your point), at least the
> Canadian's socialist policies force their rich to leave the country, and
> head on south (for now, until the mega-hospitals in Thailand get more
> publicity) to get adequate health care; rather than spending their
> additional 1.07 years of life on a long line...
>
> You seem to be saying the elite in the UK can buy their way around the
> morass of socialized ineptitude without even the appearance of propriety
> by
> leaving the country for treatment. Yes?
>
>

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