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Fri Sep 22 18:04:13 BST 2006

If anyone on the list believes that:
"If we had a universal system - Medicare for everyone - there would be no
more horror stories like those reported by The Los Angeles Times. And we'd
almost certainly spend less on health care than we do now. "

I would refer you to an excellent British Doctor's website http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/ at which he details his daily life and the functioning of the NHS. Frankly the bureaucracy, incompetence, and delay makes Blue Cross look like efficiency experts. On the plus side the British government raised doctors salaries quite a lot to buy into the system.

The way that medicare keeps overhead low is by 1) farming it out to private companies and 2) passing the buck to the hospitals and doctors. Of course to Krugman that's not a bug, it's a feature.

Bill Bromberg

William J. Bromberg
Savannah Surgical Group
912 350-7412

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