From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:25:07 -0500, John Cuccia  wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:29:50 -0500, "Gary Wiltshire"

> wrote:
>
>> I for one am not willing to have
>> my relatively decent care dragged down to some Canadian average.
>
> Relative to what?
>
> ==============
> http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/14128912.htm
> We're not sure whether to be cheered or disheartened by this news.
>
> The good: The biggest study ever of U.S. health care finds that
> Americans -- rich, poor, male, female, black, white -- get generally
> equal medical treatment.
>
> The bad: That care is far from top-quality.
>
> The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, didn't
> look at difficulties in getting treatment -- such as lack of insurance
> -- that are clearly affected by income. It looked only at urban-area
> dwellers who sought treatment, and whether they got the appropriate
> tests, drugs and treatments. It found, in the words of chief author
> Dr. Steven Asch, "We all get equally mediocre care."
>
> Experts blame the situation on an overburdened, fragmented health care
> system. To that, we'd add: lax enforcement of a few inept physicians,
> a general lack of public accountability and -- not least -- the
> mind-boggling and time-consuming complexity of dealing with health
> insurance companies.
>
> There has  to be a better way
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I had 21 years of government health care as a Navy brat.  No thanks.

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Gary Wiltshire

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