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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.