From: DRAGONFLY           
To: CHARLES DITTELL     
Subject: Nat. Healthcare
Date & Time: 05/21/91 21:54:31
Message Number 16985

My comments:
   
   I'm somewhat out of my league, here.  But I'd really like to talk
with some doctors, and ask them what their biggest expenses are...
then see what can be done about cutting costs, BEFORE a 'national
health care' would be set up.  Making it nationalized will NEVER
solve the problem of the expenses of health care; all it will do is
make it much more difficult for there to be any real reform.
     
   Again, I'd like to know if Canada and England really have no problems
paying for the national health care.  Remembering that they have a
MUCH reduced militia (even on a per person basis), I remember that
England has a much higher tax rate than we do.  (Even after the reforms
of Maggie Thatcher.)
    
   You came up with one of the problems with the cost of medicine: no
competition!  When it's something as important as your life, there MUST
be competition between companies.  
     
   By the way, speak for yourself when you say you don't want to leave
the country.  I HAVE lived in other countries, and have no intentions
of staying in this country the rest of my life.  My Spanish is good, and
I'm learning German... that opens up much of Europe and South America
for any business.
     
                        //Dragonfly//