Re: Herd instincts?

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:00:26 -0600, John Fields
<jfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:06:45 -0800 (PST), bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx
wrote:

On Nov 23, 2:23 pm, John Fields <jfie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:10:58 -0800 (PST), bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx
wrote:
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The source of the irritation is the reaction to your perpetual
insistence that you're always right about everything and all of the
rest of us are always wrong unless we buy your belief set.
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As far as constructive solutions goes, I don't know about Jim's case
in Arizona, but here in Texas we have the Seton Healthcare Network:

http://www.seton.net/

where no one is turned away because of inability to pay.

The Arizona equivalent is AHCCCS (the Arizona Health Care Cost
Containment System)

http://www.ahcccs.state.az.us/site/


But it looks as if they will charge you if you have any capacity to
pay,

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Yes, of course, idiot. While it's private and not-for-profit, there
_are_ expenses.
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and the level of care offered to the indigent is unlikely to be
impressive.

Arizona's is not hospital-specific


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Jesus, what an *** you are. You can't even bear to admit that
there are good people in the world.
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[snip]

You're one sick puppy, Sloman.

That's a certainty! (Spell checker wanted to make that "cretin" when
I stumble typed ;-)

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In Europe health care is paid for
out of tax or by compulsory health insurance (which comes to the same
thing). The bureacracy involved isn't cheap, but it is lot cheaper
than the baroque bureaucracies than run your health system, which is
one of the reasons you waste 14% of GDP on a health system that
doesn't deliver the level of health care we get in Europe for around
8% of GDP.

So why is it the Europeons and Canadians troop to the US when they
need some kind of critical quality medical care?


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If it's badly broke enough we'll fix it when we get around to it.
Or not. As for your system, if it works I'm happy for ya.

Your United States of Europe seems to be doing OK, too, so I guess
you have to grudgingly admit that you learned _something_ from us.
:-)

...Jim Thompson
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