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in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/30/05 1:35 AM:

A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Scott asks:
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But there is a national system of classifying medical conditions by
priority
is there not? If doctors are free to admit whomever they please
whenever
they please and do surgery on them, how is the system "socialized?"
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Just think about that for a moment will you. A "national" system, I
mean.

This is a HUGE country. How do you suppose that would work?!

Same way it works everywhere else...not very well at all.

Suppose I need heart surgery in Vancouver, and a surgeon happens to be
free in Toronto. Do you suppose that somehow a government bureaucrat
orders or directs me to Toronto to be serviced by this available
surgeon. Of course NOT!

No, he just tells you you can't have heart surgery in Vancouver till a bunch
of other people get surgery first. Nor can YOU simply board a bus and go to
Toronto and walk in to a hospital and be admitted, because Toronto has its
own government-mandated priority list, and you're not on it.

ROFL! You are really making a fool of yourself. You have no idea how the
Canadian health care system works! Not a clue!