From: John Cuccia 

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?

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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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