[geeks] healthcare was: nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:28:15 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> Socialized healthcare == RATIONED healthcare
> 
> ROFL! Unless the US has infinite resources to allocate to healthcare,
> it also has healthcare rationing. Open your wallet. See those bits
> of paper with "$" written on them ? They're ration tickets. It may
> or may not be a better rationing systems, but it's still a
> rationing system.
> 

My point is, that you can have as much health care as you can afford and 
the market can provide.  You get to be in charge, not some bureaucrat 
who doesn't even have an MD.

If a bureaucrat believes that "machine X has no positive effect on brain 
cancer" then that bureauracy doesn't allocate funds to buy one and, no 
one can use it.

> If you do have to throw rocks at socialised healthcare, please make
> sure they are really rocks and not boomerangs.

If socialized healthcare were so wonderful, people from other countries 
would want to have it; so much so that the rich from other countries 
would travel to said country to take advantage of it.

Instead, people from e.g. Canada travel to the USA in order to get 
better healthcare than what is provided there.

Read up on "medical tourism" and reflect that all the countries people 
travel to for major surgery are ones in which the free market, not 
socialized medicine, is operating.

SOCIALISM NEVER WORKS.  That is just the way it is.

All the problems that the US healthcare system has, are a result of 
having a split socialist/free-market system - remove the socialism and 
things will get better.

Yes, I have lived in Canada and yes, I currently reside in the USA and 
pay for my own healthcare out of pocket (self insured).

--Patrick