-=> Quoting Matt Smith to Robert Keith <=-
 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 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? 
 MS> Israel is just (another) example of how national health care does
 MS> (not) work over the _long-term_.  I could as easily have referred to
 MS> how Canada virtually shuts down nonemergency hospital care toward the
 MS> end of the fiscal year when it runs out of money, according to Canadian
 MS> nurses...or its waiting-list problems that effectively ration care by
 MS> keeping patients "on hold" until at least some of them die off or get
 MS> frustrated with the wait and come south to get care here at their own
 MS> expense. 
 MS> -!- Simplex BBS (v1.07.00Beta [DOS])
 MS>  ! Origin: NighthawkBBS, Burlington NC 910-228-7002 HST Dual (1:3644/6)
The Canadian system is run by the provinces. Your statement is not true
according to the many snowbird Ontarians that winter here. However, what
you say may be true in some province. All of which means that, in order for
any single supplier system to work, adequte funding is a must, which is
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demonstrated dramatically by the current operation of some HMOs.
... One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
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