"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Grass is Greener: The British National Health Service thinks it should act more like Kaiser Permanente, but Kaiser Permanente is already acting like the NHS.
Come on Sydney, Kaiser's not like the NHS--you know they don't have Greyhound buses in England!
He also begs me to caution you to avoid HMO's who spurn the only hospital in your town. Trouble is, you never know when they're going to turn from friendly to hostile, and most people can only change insurance companies during periods of "open enrollment" at work - usually once or twice a year. posted by Sydney on
11/29/2003 07:21:00 PM
0 comments
