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- From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
- Subject: Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:42:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.204239.14099@ssc.com>
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- slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan20.071414.4698@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
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- : |I don't understand why this is such a problem for Americans.
- : |Americans are willing to shop at Pace and other large-scale retailers
- : |that eliminate the middleman. The Canadian health care system is
- : |exactly the same -- eliminate unnecessary middlemen and the cost goes
- : |down.
- :
- : because we have a choice of whether or not we go to costco.
- : should we have one phone carrier, one postal service,
- : one grocery store, one...?
- : the same could be said of all of them.
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- And in Canada (unlike HMOs here) you have a choice of what doctor you go
- to. Why do people continue to attempt to equate one insurance provider
- with on choice in health care?
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