RK>  MS> When you, like me, are a _daily_ listener to the foreign
RK>  MS> broadcasts of a country (Israel) with a health-alliance style
RK>  MS> health-financing system, you will be more credible in your 
RK> assertion
RK>  MS> that such systems "work"...after you are aware of the Israeli 
RK> system's
RK>  MS> perennial strikes, patient-service cuts, and cost overruns!!
RK> 
RK> This was started by my statement that I never met a Canadian who 
RK> would
RK> trade his system for ours. Now you bring in Israel. Just what has 
RK> that to
RK> do with the Canadian system? 
    Israel is just (another) example of how national health care does (not) 
work over the _long-term_.  I could as easily have referred to how Canada 
virtually shuts down nonemergency hospital care toward the end of the fiscal 
year when it runs out of money, according to Canadian nurses...or its 
waiting-list problems that effectively ration care by keeping patients "on 
hold" until at least some of them die off or get frustrated with the wait and 
come south to get care here at their own expense.
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