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Old 06-26-2009, 02:44 AM   #173
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Every European country does things in a somewhat different way, and perhaps some of those other systems are fairer. more efficient, or whatever. Unfortunately I don't know enough about them to be able to form an opinion, I'm afraid. The important question for me, at least, is not the details of how individual healthcare systems operate, but rather, "do you think that the fundamental principle of government-provided healthcare is right or wrong?" and for me the answer is "it's right".
For what it is worth I've worked in health care in Canada (some years ago now) and in Australia. They both work far better than the third world system in the US.

I thought the system in Canada was better than that in Australia, which (to oversimplify) is about midway between Canada's system and the US system.

A conservative Canadian Prime Minister regarded public health care as a 'sacred duty' of governments.

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