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Aaron Baugher wrote:
Jim writes: Aaron Baugher wrote: "Ophelia" writes: FOB wrote: Do you have a camera? I find my little digital camera does an excellent job on documents with the macro (closeup) setting. I do indeed) I will take it with me. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I have just remembered. Everything is on computer now!!! No, pack of notes. I wonder if she can print it straight from computer?? For cripes' sake, I'd hope so. What century is this? Not that a couple minutes at a copy machine would be such a hardship either. I will go next week. We can't even make forward appointments any more. You must ring up on the day you want to see someone. Our goverment has a lot to answer for(( And yet we have people here in the USA just itching to implement a similar system. Actually, I don't think we really know what we are "itching" for, but know that the existing system is a disgrace. You must admit that the existing "system" has a lot of defects. Absolutely. The biggest defect is that it's a "system" at all. For starters, any time you have a third-party paying for something (insurance) prices will skyrocket. That's just the nature of things when the person getting the service isn't paying directly out of pocket. If people had health insurance with a high deductible -- where you pay for the office visits and prescriptions when you get a cold, but you're covered if you get cancer and need chemotherapy -- it wouldn't be so bad; but comprehensive plans that cover every sniffle with premiums withheld by employers have really skewed things. It's *almost* as bad as a true socialized health care "system," but not quite. A "system" can have copayments --- and in fact these have been around for many years. I have long had -- and still have -- an insurance "system" with copayments to assist the patient in appreciating the value of the system, and to limit (somewhat) unnecessary office visits for just a "cold" or an arbitrary ache or pain. I hope you speak in more measured "rants" in the future. I have "hope". At any rate, your conversation above fails to meet ordinary definitions of a meaningful exchange. Perhaps you will discover the "rant" on rereading, and take out any internal hostilities where it is productive to you, rather than merely relief. |
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