"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
Britain's Other Healthcare System: The UK economic blog, Adam Smith, has an interesting post about Britain's private health insurance system. It's more widespread and widely used than you might think:
It's easy to knock private healthcare if you just imagine it as a few toffs having their hip replacements done in some posh hospital - thereby drawing surgeons and resources from the rest of us. But it isn't like that. It's not production-line high-class surgery. It's mostly the Cinderella stuff of residential care, social care, psychiatric care - all the very human things that big state bureaucracies frankly aren't very well equipped to do well. posted by Sydney on
12/12/2003 07:03:00 AM
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