From: robtelee@yabbs
To: laelth@yabbs
Subject: Socialized Medicine
Date: Thu Feb 10 10:24:09 1994

My wife  spent almost her entire life under the British system of "health 
care."  You would not want to get anything like what they have over there. 
 Operations thet we take for granted (coronary bypass, transplants) have 
to be scheduled because thery are considered "elective."  What kind of 
system is that ?  My wife and I have spent many hours discussing this and 
she seems to think that our system i9s  better than what Great Britain 
has.  Canada has the same problems.  Entire wings are closed because there 
is not enough money in the system to keep them going.

As for people not being able to get health care,  look at a public 
hospital.  By government mandate, if they accept public funds, they must 
treat ANYONE, even those not able to pay.  Granted, our system is not the 
best in the world.  But I do NOT want another govt bureaucracy screwing it 
up even worse than it is.

As always, your comments are welcome.

Robtelee