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2010-06-15 Africa North
A Dirt-Poor Nation, With a Health Plan
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Posted by gorb 2010-06-15 12:56|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 I like the part where they have generics for name brand drugs. That would solve alot here right away
Posted by chris 2010-06-15 18:41||   2010-06-15 18:41|| Front Page Top

#2 The basic problem with public healthcare in developed nations is that it is politically untenable to provide a service inferior to private healthcare and so costs run away.
Posted by phil_b 2010-06-15 18:52||   2010-06-15 18:52|| Front Page Top

#3 So we can all have squalid medical conditions? That must be the plan.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2010-06-15 19:16||   2010-06-15 19:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The advantage of being a dirt poor country is that there is little incentive for tort lawyers and the standards are not 'perfection'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-15 19:29||   2010-06-15 19:29|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 The advantage of being a dirt poor country is that there is little incentive for tort lawyers and the standards are not 'perfection'. Posted by Procopius2k

This certainly may explain the continued migration of attorneys from California.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-06-15 19:32||   2010-06-15 19:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Does the $2 cover machete wounds?
Posted by ed 2010-06-15 21:04||   2010-06-15 21:04|| Front Page Top

#7 The basic problem with public healthcare in developed nations is that it is politically untenable to provide a service inferior to private healthcare and so costs run away.

Obama's working on solving that problem, phil_b.
Posted by gorb 2010-06-15 22:47||   2010-06-15 22:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Perfection #6, ed, you delivered the essence of droll...laughed nigh until choking; thanks!
Posted by 2sealys  2010-06-15 23:11||   2010-06-15 23:11|| Front Page Top

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