BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser says:
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Well, are you claiming bad press then? Whenever someone here talks
about
socialized medicine, the examples of people waitlisted to death in
Canada
and Britain are commonplace. Maybe you're just lucky.
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Probably bad press all around, eh? Whenever the media talks about the
Americam model, it's examples of the working poor, nursing nagging
ailments that under socialized medicine would have readily been cleared
up.

Sounds like the media is once again depicting sensationalised
viewer-attracting examples that are not representative of reality... but
what else is new? Not too long ago Fox aired a so called "documentary"
about live new-born babies who were tossed on piles to die. The funny
thing was that no Dutch reporter had heard of anything like that ever
happening, and even a German report exists about how Fox aired something
that never happened. It turned out to be something that a Fox reporter
who only stayed in the Netherlands for a day made up... Very original
and very bogus.

I guess he decided that mixing two controversial items about the
Netherlands, i.e. legalised abortion and euthanasia, would draw more
U.S. viewers.

puke

I've had plenty of relatives with eye, cancer, heart, diabetes, etc etc
problems. NO issues with our health system. NO waits (in one case, in
fact, helicopter from one town to the next -- immediately from the GP's
office).

Ditto here. The only exception is certain transplants for which very few
donors exist, but for that there is also a waiting list in the U.S..
Unless of course you pay a fortune to let some Indian streetkid get cut
open in a New Delhi private hospital and getting his organ. :-(

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