Re: The Bull*** Parade

From: Happy Dog (happydog_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:55:50 -0400

"Bob (this one)" <Bob@nospam.com> wrote in

> And yet, the infant mortality rate in Canada is lower than in the US.
> Life expectancy in Canada is higher than the US.

Are you stating that this is due to the state of the medical care systems in
each country? Go ahead. Try it.
>
> There's a difference between waits for things like elective surgery
> and life-threatening conditions. It's one thing to say it takes longer
> in Canada and leave it there. It's quite another to say that it's on
> the non-serious, non-painful conditions that the delays are longer.

Yeah. Like heart surgery and dialysis. You haven't done your homework.

> And how much longer? It's generally an issue of convenience, not
> medical necessity that most of the hubbub is about.

And what's wrong with that? Medicine is supposed to make people feel
better. Who determines the difference between a "convenience" and a
"necessity"? If you think it's ER staff, you're an idiot.
>
> I'm not asserting superiority of one system over another.

< whatever >

le moo

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