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blake murphy[_2_]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:11:33 -0600, Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>> Omelet > wrote:
>>
>>>Blinky's death ****ed me off. There was no reason for him to die of
>>>something so fixable.
>>
>> My (U.S.) health provider says to see a doctor if your cough lasts
>> more than four weeks. Four weeks! Something is wrong with that,
>> I think.
>>
>> In the U.K. management is different. To buy any sort of cough
>> medicine (not just the codeine-containing ones), you are required
>> to talk to a pharmacist, who will try to determine how sick
>> the patient is. If they recognize you from having been in
>> there a week before they will say, "You should not have a cough
>> for this long". Community-acquired pneumonia mortality is
>> about 5% in the U.S. and about 1% in the U.K.
>>
>> It gives one pause.
>>
>> Steve
>
> That's scary.
>
> We are headed towards socialized medicine in the US.
>
> That frightens me quite frankly.

why would it frighten you? you'll still get paid.

your pal,
blake