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"Michael Daly"

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The other item to note is that we spend vast amounts on catastrophic care
for
terminal patients, especially elderly cancer and heart patients. Is that
true
in the socialized medicine countries?

No - we just stick the elderly on ice flows and let the polar bears eat them.

In Canada, the doctors vet patient care and do not encourage frivolous
spending.
Health care dollars are limited and must be used judiciously. Just because
it's
socialized doesn't mean it's unlimited.

I asked a real question and you seem to give two different replies. Would a
doctor in Canada spend thousands or tens of thousands to extend the life of a
terminally ill patient? If they do ration health care, is this one of the
areas that they save? Remember, here they spend hundreds of thousands to give
liver transplants to 70 year old alcoholics.

The general complaint of socialized medicine is that it does become a scarce
commodity.

Second and third opinions are a result of sometimes frivolous legal suits in
the US.
SYOTR
Larry C.