Proprietario di Guzzi wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:45:10 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

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I remember in the 1970's there were 4 MRI centers in the San Francisco Bay
area. One of my customers had one of them. There was 1 in British
Columbia. They are all over the place now. I had knee pain. Went to the
orthopedic doc. Doc figured torn meniscus. Their MRI center called my
insurance company for an OK. I got in on Monday, 3 days later. No month
long wait, while my knee got worse. 3 weeks later or 13 days ago, they
scoped the knee. Pretty dam impressive health care. As to those that say
we have low grade health care as the mortality rate is higher, etc. All
those countries they cite are very homogeneous small countries. They do not
have 300 million people of multiple ethnicity and income levels.


Pesky facts again!

Last winter I walked out of my Dr's office with a script for a CAT scan.
I walked down stairs to the CAT/MRI Scan place and I had to wait 15
minutes for them to warm up the CAT scan machine. It worked out well
because I had to fill out the paper work. Thirty minutes later I was
done with the paper work and the CAT scan.