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<blockquote data-quote="brown67" data-source="post: 243504" data-attributes="member: 5457"><p>The way these other countries cut cost is by rationing health care. Think gas shortages of the 70's. That's why you have to wait in line for everything. Average wait to see a family doctor in Canada is 3 weeks. Average wait to see a specialist is 17 weeks. God help you if you are old, because you go to the end of the line. Younger people are put toward the front of the line and the aged are sent to the rear. Why? It's more cost affective. There is such a shortage of doctors in some ares of Canada that they have lotteries to get a family doctor. </p><p> </p><p>In the United States if you go to the VA system you can only get 20% of the drugs on the market. The other 80% are considered too expensive and can't be prescribed. Same thing in most other western countries. Drugs are limited and you can't get many drugs there that we can here.</p><p> </p><p>So what good is free health care if you can't use it.</p><p> </p><p>In Britain and New Zealand the people who have money go out and buy private insurance, and go to private hospitals and doctors. So they get to pay twice for health care. Once in taxes and second in premium's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brown67, post: 243504, member: 5457"] The way these other countries cut cost is by rationing health care. Think gas shortages of the 70's. That's why you have to wait in line for everything. Average wait to see a family doctor in Canada is 3 weeks. Average wait to see a specialist is 17 weeks. God help you if you are old, because you go to the end of the line. Younger people are put toward the front of the line and the aged are sent to the rear. Why? It's more cost affective. There is such a shortage of doctors in some ares of Canada that they have lotteries to get a family doctor. In the United States if you go to the VA system you can only get 20% of the drugs on the market. The other 80% are considered too expensive and can't be prescribed. Same thing in most other western countries. Drugs are limited and you can't get many drugs there that we can here. So what good is free health care if you can't use it. In Britain and New Zealand the people who have money go out and buy private insurance, and go to private hospitals and doctors. So they get to pay twice for health care. Once in taxes and second in premium's. [/QUOTE]
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