Dave wrote:
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:20:21 -0800, "Capt. JG" said:

You miss the point. The question is not whether the money we're throwing
at
medicine is going to the doctors, the nurses, the hospital administrators,
or any of the other cast of characters in your play. The issue rather is
that the decision to spend the money for a particular doctor's visit,
X-ray,
"procedure" or other item is being made in most instances by someone with
no
financial stake in that decision. If you stand on the corner and hand out
free candy bars, people are going to eat a lot of candy, but either you're
gonna run out of candy very quickly or you'll have to stop handing the
candy
out for free.

Potentially being dead isn't a financial stake??

If I have a runny nose when I come in from the cold I should immediately
make a doctor's appointment because it might be a deadly form of pneumonia?


For God's sake your being just a tad disingenuous, you can try and make
an appointment for such here, you probably won't get it, nurses and
doctors secretaries are not generally cretins. You can go to an
emergency with such a complaint, but the triage nurse is going to stick
you into the absolute lowest priority available; after you've waited
24hrs you'll probably go home and treat yourself like you should have.

Cheers
Marty