On Sep 16, 12:24*pm, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
On Sep 16, 9:08*am, Jack Stein wrote:

CW wrote:
The last time I went to an ER, they told me that they couldn't see me until
I filed out the paperwork. Then they complained that there was to much blood
on the paperwork to read it.

If you think the government has any chance in hell of reducing the paper
work, you are really delusional.

I think you are letting your ideology blind you to reality. Every
other government-run health care system in advanced countries has a
lot less paperwork than the US private health care system, hence the
much lower administrative costs.

Luigi

Angela works in the health care system. A lot of our friends do. Here,
in Canada, and 5 miles away in Port Huron Michigan.
A friend of mine, now passed away, worked in ER in a Detroit hospital.
(He had a tattoo of Snoopy running along side a stretcher with his paw
in a bullet hole.) Another friend used to work in Detroit in
administration and now works here.
All in all, both systems seem to work adequately. The reason some
people are on a long waiting list is due to a shortage of facilities,
doctors, trained personnel... we had a new MRI sitting here, idle for
6 months because we didn't have trained staff.
All systems are trying to cope with a growing, ageing population.
There are success- and horror stories on both sides of the
border...with some big exceptions... people going bankrupt trying to
stay alive. THAT doesn't happen here... and NO rejection due to
previous illnesses.
That ****ing corporate greed will be the death of all us....