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Goomba38 > wrote:

> Peter A wrote:
>
> > Now that you have some actual facts at your disposal, will you please
> > explain again why the US health care system is so great?
> >
> Because I have a choice. I want what I want when I want it and that
> alone is worth something to me. I want to pick and choose my own
> doctors, not be assigned one or limited in seeing the specialists I
> might need. I have those choices now. I don't want to lose that.
>
> Now if we can pick and choose which illnesses to treat and which
> patients are left to go on to glory...our costs would be less too.
> As I recently read in a letter to the editor, a physician wrote that not
> a day goes by that (paraphrased here) "an overweight, smoker with
> diabetes doesn't complain to him about the cost of health care."
> Well...gee..ya think?

Or a terminal alcoholic gets $10,000 worth of blood products before they
die of cascade organ failure...

There are many examples.

I think the biggest problem with the American Health Care system is not
the cost of health care.

It's the cost of malpractice insurance and litigation risks.

We spend a LOT of money covering our asses.

Right Goomba? I know you have seen this as much, if not more, than I
have.

Socialized medicine is not going to fix that either. Only Tort Reform
will.
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