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[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 22, 2008, at 03:07 , Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:28:15 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> Socialized healthcare == RATIONED healthcare
>
> ROFL! Unless the US has infinite resources to allocate to healthcare,
> it also has healthcare rationing. Open your wallet. See those bits
> of paper with "$" written on them ? They're ration tickets. It may
> or may not be a better rationing systems, but it's still a
> rationing system.
>
> If you do have to throw rocks at socialised healthcare, please make
> sure they are really rocks and not boomerangs.

That's not a valid comparison.

Rationing means you could afford 10 apples, but the government has  
decided that no one needs more than 3, even when people who don't get  
4 die all the time and could afford to pay for them.

That's why people in socialized medicine countries often travel to non- 
socialized medicine countries to get medical care.

I met a guy in the local hospital years ago who was from Canada.  At  
home, he was dying, all because of arbitrary rationing rules.

He came here and a 30 minute operation saved his life.

He had the money, but his government was telling him he didn't need it  
and/or that he wasn't worth spending even his own money on.

That's the thing a lot of people worry about with socialized  
medicine.  In some countries, it isn't just a limit in what "the plan"  
will give you, you can't get it period.



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