British or Canadian "top surgeon" they'd be assigned to the hardest cases
How so? Should socialized medicine have a mechanism for this? (I've never heard of such a thing.) It sounds nifty, but it also sounds pretty much impossible to implement.
It's very true -- capitalist medicine means the rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor. Believe me, I've been both. But socialist medicine needs to be implemented very, very carefully, because it's a system with no strong balancing force toward "right", and (like all socialist approaches I've seen so far) a strong force toward "what we have now, only cheaper and receiving less effort".
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Date: 2006-03-08 02:46 pm (UTC)How so? Should socialized medicine have a mechanism for this? (I've never heard of such a thing.) It sounds nifty, but it also sounds pretty much impossible to implement.
It's very true -- capitalist medicine means the rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor. Believe me, I've been both. But socialist medicine needs to be implemented very, very carefully, because it's a system with no strong balancing force toward "right", and (like all socialist approaches I've seen so far) a strong force toward "what we have now, only cheaper and receiving less effort".