From: laelth@yabbs
To: minutemn@yabbs
Subject: re: Socialized Medicine
Date: Thu Feb 10 01:23:45 1994

Hmmmmm...
    Now let me see, we, the US is $4.5 trillion dollars in debt, and you 
want to say that other countries are almost bankrupt?  I bet that the 
combined debt of the  countries that you mention (Sweeden, England) is 
less than the debt that we've got.
    You argue that malpractice litigation is driving up the cost of health 
care here.  I agree, but have you looked at malpractice litigation 
statistics for countries with socialized medicine?  It hardly exists, 
because lawyers have a very hard time sueing goverment employees (which 
doctors in a socialized system are).  So I agree with you, if we had 
socialized medicine here we could effectively contain the costs of medical 
malpractice by making it extremely hard for lawyers to bring suits against 
doctors because they would be, in effect, government employees.  You 
defend  my argument quite nicely, thank you.

-laelth