On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 04:57:17 GMT, devil > wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:19:00 -0800, Tarver Engineering wrote:
>
>>
>> "devil" > wrote in message
>> news
>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:59:22 -0800, Tarver Engineering wrote:
>>>
>>> > Canada's health care system is rationed such that curable breast cancer
>> is a
>>> > death sentence. Canada's health care system fails to address women's
>> health
>>> > care needs.
>>>
>>> You don't know anything about Canada and health care in Canada, do you?
>>
>> Sure I do, if a woman goes without tretment for breast cancer for 6 months,
>> the Canadian Government will buy her a bus ticket to Vermont. Didn't you
>> know?
>
>I know precisely how the Canadian system works. I live in Canada. Our
>personal experience has been that we got great value.
>
>OTOH, we can tell you of a couple of horror stories from when we lived in
>the US. And paid out of our own pocket.
>
>Most of this discussion misses the point. That the medical *business* in
>the US is in effect a monopoly, with what amounts to a license to print
>money.

So true, devil, and I live in the US.