From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:11:43 GMT

In <1992Dec31.140006.5472@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:

>In article <1992Dec30.193602.12123@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
>>helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
>>: In article <1992Dec29.193954.27752@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
>>: |> I don't think that's what I said. The fact is that your free market
>>: |> system fails to provide some 25% of your population with any medical
>>: |> care whatsoever.
>>: 
>>: I'll repeat myself and please read it this time, WE DON'T HAVE A FREE
>>: MARKET IN HEALTH CARE.  We have a "mixed system" in which the federal 
>>: goverment pays for and therefore mandates 60% of the health care. 
>>
>>No need to shout. If you examine those countries whose health care is
>>the envy of the rest of the world, you will find not only that they do
>>not espouse a free market in health care, but that the entire health
>>care system is run by the government. Case closed.


>	What, the German system that is in desparate need of reform due
>	to rising costs?  Or do you mean the Canadian system--you know, 
>	the same one that has it's patients coming down to the US
>	to get CT scans, MRI's and bone scans done because Canada
>\	has insufficient hardware?

I suggest you talk to some Canadians about their health care system.
Finding a Canadian who would be willing to trade their system for ours
is QUITE difficult.  Or talk to people who provide health care service
in the U.S. close to the Canadian border.  You'll find there aren't
huge floods of Canadians coming down here because they can't get care
at home.  Get some facts and stop believing all the propaganda.
This, by the way, would also seem to be good advice for you with
regard to OS/2 and Windows/NT -- just thought I'd mention them, since
you seem to have missed doing it.

> 
>	The other day (about three weeks ago) I went to the doctor because
>	my knee was immobile.  So, the doctor took some xrays and determined
>	that we needed anMRI done because there was obvious swelling, but
>	nothing to be seen on the xrays.  So I called the MRI center to schedule
>	an appointment.  "When would you like to come?" "Oh, well, when are
>	times available?"  "*Oh, anytime, just about."

That's nice.  Now, with that much unused capacity, how high do you
think the costs are to maintain it?

>	Thank you, yes--theUS does need reform.  Medicare reform.  Insurance
>	reform.  But I'd rather have a system o' plenty than a deficient
>	system o' "let's all wait in lines like shoppers in a soviet
>	supermarket".

Get some facts, then get back to us.  Preferably in a newsgroup where
this kind of discussion would be germane.

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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