England & Canada question

[Killearn Kitties]

Just as an illustration of the woeful lack of knowledge on the part of some of the people who are opining on the health care issue, here's a quote from "Investor's Business Daily":
I'm sure that would come as a surprise to Mr. Hawking, who was born in Oxford, England, and is a professor at the University of Cambridge. He currently is recovering from a recent illness, after treatment at a National Health Service hospital.

That just beggars belief.

[smokey the elder]

There was an article with a chart showing the largest contributors to waste in American health care. One of the largest bars on this chart was excessive testing. (I can't remember what the other one was; I need to go dig around for the link to the article.) The excessive testing may be linked to the tort law in this country; people tend to like to sue. Tort reform may need to be coupled to health care reform in order to help reduce this one source of waste.

Here's just one link, by Price Waterhouse Coopers, which cited excessive testing as the #1 waste source. Americans' life style choices were #3. http://www.pwc.com/us/en/healthcare/...f-excess.jhtml

[Edwina's Secretary]

That just beggars belief.

It is amazing the "untruths" some people are willing to spread to advance their political agenda. Another example of an "untruth".....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Aug. 7) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.

Death Panels???? Suggesting that strikes me as ugly and evil! And of course, is not true.