Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/31

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Subject: Re: OT Topics - Re: [Leica] Canadians,slavery and the health care system: OT...oh and Nazis too [No Nazis]
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:20:31 +0200
References: <FJEBKEGCFHHDIHNFNDDDGEKECHAA.thomasmitchell1@qwest.net> <00cf01c250b6$403859e0$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net>

I think that discussing the relative merits of health care systems in different
countries is a valid (off)topic. So in that vein, the Canadian system IS
interesting to Americans because Canada is the closest neighbour (I know, there
is Mexico too but I doubt many people in the U.S. would want to copy their
health care system) and the Canadian system clearly delivers something the U.S.
system does not, namely universal coverage. I have lived in and hence
experienced the health care systems in Poland, Denmark, the U.S., Belgium and
Switzerland, and in a way find the Swiss system best, as it combines the level
of choice that Americans used to enjoy (I write in the past tense here since
choice in the U.S. is increasingly limited by insurance companies and HMOs) with
universal coverage, but without the endless waiting for elective treatment that
one can experience in Denmark or the UK.

In any event, the population in all industrialised countries is aging which will
increase the demand for health care in the coming decades, and so we all will
have to find ways of dealing with it. It should be possible to have a civilised
discussion about it without bringing in the Nazis or starting to attack one
another. But the Leica list is probably not the best forum for such a
discussion.

Nathan
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In reply to: Message from "Thomas Mitchell" <thomasmitchell1@qwest.net> (RE: OT Topics - Re: [Leica] Canadians, slavery and the health care system: OT...oh and Nazis too [No Nazis])
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