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To: metesky
You're holding Cuba up as a model for how anything should be run, just about says it all about you, Larry.

No, it says it all about you. The beauty of a democratic, capitalist system is that problems are approached with an eye to finding what works. In totalitarian systems it's ideolgy regnant. Somewhere you got turned around.

If you're really involved in health care and are over a certain age, remember how (relatively) cheap health care was before the gub'mint got involved?

That's the very question I asked our administrator...because, during the '50s, our hospital was profitable and delivered a full range of medical services. Her reply was, "In the old days you didn't have to be a specialist to help deliver anesthetics (or other services) and there were no really expensive machines to deliver accurate diagnoses. No one wants to go back to the old days." My reply was "What good is the new stuff if no one can afford it?" That's where we stand now.

61 posted on 07/05/2002 8:54:04 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry
The beauty of a democratic, capitalist system is that problems are approached with an eye to finding what works. In totalitarian systems it's ideolgy regnant. Somewhere you got turned around.

Let me see here: I'm all for a capitalist free market system with no gub'mint involvement; you're singing the praises of the biggest totalitarian system in the Western hemisphere and your conclusion is that I'm turned around?

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Nice try, old bean.

My reply was "What good is the new stuff if no one can afford it?"

And yet you believe that Cuba, a country that can't feed its own people, can't supply jobs and has no free market, can afford all this modern technology? You're bullsh!tt!n' yourself, Larry.

70 posted on 07/05/2002 9:09:24 AM PDT by metesky
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