re f o cus health the big secret demon desire wright edu not a boomer writes harelb math cornell edu writes it is a matter of logic that government run systems are inefficient and the fact that the highly bureaucratized private sector system in the us is vastly more inefficient is therefore irrelevant proof that the entire private sector is vastly more inefficient good point brett it might merely be proof that basic health care markets operate differently with certain nonmarket phenomenom that the private sector can t handle well like armies vs warlords in that respect the effects on american society vs canadian european society might also be different it is for example of no relevance that blue cross of massachusetts employs people more than are employed in all of canada s health programs which insure times as many people blue cross is the government health insurance provider good point again blue cross in the u s is quite convoluted compared to the canadian and german insurance funds which have a minimal organization to coordinate it if anything bureaucracy now needs to be built up in canada to combat fraud such as americans crossing the border individually to use insurance cards borrowed from friends and relatives or using phony domestic addresses or fraud rings stealing them in blocks our private practices are now recording insurance account numbers both public insurance and private insurance which most have never bothered to do before on assumption of an honour system gld je me souviens gary l dare gld columbia edu go winnipeg jets go gld cunixc bitnet selanne domi stanley
