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Adventures in Mamboland
"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Yeah. That sounds about right.
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Date: 2004-03-19 12:01 pm (UTC)1) One case involved someone being annoying about not even having contact information for their insurance company. Um, yeah.
2) One has to do with patent law and medicines.
3) One has to do with narcotics, which certainly wouldn't be better under a national system! (See Lisa's comments)
I didn't read much of the large article, it seems mostly an economy rant, and I've already discuss that in other replies.
The problem today is lawsuits and patents, plain and simple. If doctors didn't get their asses sued off regularly they would have to charge such insane prices in order to pay for their malpractice insurance. If drug companies didn't have such a strangle hold on patents drugs would not be as expensive. Of course, we might not even have the drugs available it the money didn't justify the huge expense of researching, clinical trials, government approvals, etc, etc. As I said, none of this really has much to do with a national health care system.