Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think that discussing the relative merits of health care systems in different countries is a valid (off)topic. So in that vein, the Canadian system IS interesting to Americans because Canada is the closest neighbour (I know, there is Mexico too but I doubt many people in the U.S. would want to copy their health care system) and the Canadian system clearly delivers something the U.S. system does not, namely universal coverage. I have lived in and hence experienced the health care systems in Poland, Denmark, the U.S., Belgium and Switzerland, and in a way find the Swiss system best, as it combines the level of choice that Americans used to enjoy (I write in the past tense here since choice in the U.S. is increasingly limited by insurance companies and HMOs) with universal coverage, but without the endless waiting for elective treatment that one can experience in Denmark or the UK. In any event, the population in all industrialised countries is aging which will increase the demand for health care in the coming decades, and so we all will have to find ways of dealing with it. It should be possible to have a civilised discussion about it without bringing in the Nazis or starting to attack one another. But the Leica list is probably not the best forum for such a discussion. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html