Re: MD pleads politicians instead of courts
From: Wolfbrother (rangerhasten_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/27/04
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Date: 27 Aug 2004 12:20:51 -0700
"Lictor" <ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE@online.fr> wrote in message news:<412f2c44$0$19614$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-07.noos.net>...
> "George Conklin" <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:MmFXc.83$JT3.37@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > Robert has irrational fears about his health. The USA system is hugely
> > expensive and is set up for the benefit of providers, who are very well
> > organized and constantly post their complaints which never end.
>
> That's actually the amazing part about the US system, that it is one of the
> most expensive in the world *and* manages to cover only part of the people
> and badly. This is despite the American population being one of the youngest
> of the western world, and as such one of the less expensive to treat.
> Americans keep telling us that the French system will collapse because of
> old people. Well, our population is already much older than theirs, and life
> expectancy is longer. And we have a lower GPD. Yet, it's still less costly
> than their system and it's behaving better. The US healthcare is already
> collapsing, under strains that are nowhere near as intense as ours. In the
> meantime, ours is still holding.
> In any other country, people would have *demanded* such a system to be
> changed and made more efficient. That's exactly what we are seeing in
> Canada, France and the rest of Europe. People do complain. Not because the
> system is bad, but because they have a very high level of expectation. Like,
> when my brother went through the diagnosis and preparation of his brain
> surgery, he met no wait line at all, he had all the scanners he needed,
> without reguard to cost, he was examined by the head of the neuro-surgery
> dpt himself. All this for free. Yet, my father complained. Because he was a
> bit rushed through the process, because my brother was frightened by the
> whole process and cried, because the neuro-surgeon was a foreigner and had
> difficulties explaining things in layman terms. In other word, he wanted
> humane treatment (which he got a few days later with the appologies from the
> surgeon) on top of all the rest. Because we expect as much from the system.
> That's the same reason Canadian doctors attack the system, even if they love
> it.
> All the talks about failure of our system and need to change it doesn't lead
> to abandonning it, it just leads to fine tuning it to make it more
> efficient. Sure, it's always on the "verge of collapsing". Hell, there were
> already these talks when socialized healthcare started one century ago.
> That's a very slow collapse for sure... And that's exactly how you want it.
> If it's on the verge of collapsing, but not collapsing, it means that it's
> getting just the right amount of money and is at its peak efficiency. Just
> like using just-in time stock management is optimal for a company.
> On the other hand, Americans have accepted that their public system is
> worthless. They see bills for $50 nails and $2,000 hammers, and it's all
> normal to them, it's "what you get with public systems", it's not like they
> could improve the system. They have accepted that it can be both underfunded
> *and* costly. For them, it's a given that a public system will behave this
> way. They don't really ask anything from it. At best, they want to drop the
> whole thing. And the end result is that they get exactly what they were
> expecting : a bloated innefficient system that wasted an enormous amount of
> money to accomplish nothing. To think that 10% of the GPD could go to fund
> such a system and accomplish nothing is mind blowing to anyone ... except a
> Republican.
Heh, you do a good job of pointing out the staggering stupidity of the
American population. It comes from lack of concern or interest of
important issues. It comes from being uninformed and arrogant. It
really is sad. Americans really are clueless and they do not even
realize it. It takes foreigners to point it out to them and they
still do not believe. Again it is all about consolidation of money
and power. The top 1% of the population, the ruling class controls
90% of the wealth and power and utterly dominates the lives and minds
of the masses. Duping more than half of them to act and vote against
their own interests and to instead support the interests of the ruling
elite. This is the sad and disturbing reality of the American public.
They do not even realize that they no longer even have the democracy
they are so proud of. That they no longer have even the slightest
control over their own government. They think they have a choice.
That they have two parties to chose from when in fact it is just one
big corporate owned puppet party. One of my favorite quotes goes
something like this and describes the situation very well:
"The technique of infamy is to invent two lies and get people arguing
heatedly over which one of them is true."
This is how the truth is overcome in the US. The "two lies" is the
two party system, created and funded by those who truly control the
government. It is no surprise that the major funding for both parties
comes mostly from the very same source. In a rational world such a
thing would be illogical and impractical. But not in the USA.
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