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echo: grand_rounds
to: SHOSHONA BIEMAN
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-06-02 19:20:00
subject: Re: HEALTH INSURANCE

SB> MS> Canada has a _lot_ of rationing.  Not only are there waiting 
SB> lists, but
SB> if
SB> MS> the list is long enough, some of those on it die out and never 
SB> need the
SB> MS> procedure they are waiting for!
SB> 
SB> Don't forget those who come to the US and pay for life-saving 
SB> procedures to
SB> be
SB> performed on them here. If we got a Canadian-style system here, where 
SB> would
SB> the well-to-do go to circumvent the waiting lists and prolong their 
SB> lives?
    Maybe rich Americans would do what the rich Arabs do: go to India!
    Rich Arabs from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait go to India for kidney 
transplants, because Indians with two good kidneys will sell one of them for 
only about $3,000.
--- Simplex BBS (v1.07.00Beta [DOS])
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