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I even actually have health insurance now but any time I have to deal with anything in the medical industry I can't believe we have the "best system" -- nm

Posted by Dano (aka dano) Oct 1 '09, 11:02

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Anybody who doesn't immediately shout We're no#1 We're no#1 about anything to do wth the US is obviously an unpatriotic tool of the godless communists -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 1, 11:06 1
- damn right, I am! :) -- nm - znufrii Oct 1, 11:14
We're great for certain things, like certain kinds of life-saving surgery. However, I hear we are really wanting for primary care. -- nm - con_carne Oct 1, 11:05 7
- I should be more clear: I'm talking specifically about the insurance/administration side of things that I always have problems with. - Dano Oct 1, 11:09 6
  - Oh. It doesn't seem to me that we *have* any sort of national health insurance system. Its quality very much depends on where you live - con_carne Oct 1, 11:13 1
    - and, whether you have any sort of chronic illness (a.k.a. the dreaded "pre-existing conditions") -- nm - con_carne Oct 1, 11:18
  - what we need to do is stop talking about health care and health insurance as if they're the same thing. -- nm - znufrii Oct 1, 11:09 3
    - he did say "system". the system has to include all the major components. -- nm - TFox Oct 1, 11:12 2
      - I was making a more general observation that the two ideas tend to get conflated all too easily in the current debate - znufrii Oct 1, 11:13 1
        
        They get conflated often because it's hard to fix one without the other. - TFox Oct 1, 11:15
(we don't.) -- nm - TFox Oct 1, 11:03

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