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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:31:12 -0700, Peter Flass
> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:31:58 -0000 (UTC), John Levine
>>> <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In article <PM000564F...@aca4281c.ipt.aol.com>,
>>>> jmfbahciv  <See....@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>> "Free" means that the recipients have an infinite resource which
>>>>> causes no restrainst in the consumption of that resource.
>>>> 
>>>> Nonetheless, all over Europe and even in Canada people get health care
>>>> for free, no payment at all at point of service, and they are
>>>> healthier than Americans and the overall cost is about 1/2 of ours.
>>> 
>>> Maybe the cost is 1/2 of ours because the populations they treat are
>>> healthier.
>>> 
>>> There is this unstated implication that "they are healthier because
>>> the medical treatment system is better".  The notion that "they are
>>> healthier because their lifestyle is different" never gets considered.
>>> People just assume that the average American's daily activities are
>>> identical to those of the average Frenchman or German or Englishman or
>>> Swede.  But I have never seen research that shows that this is the
>>> case.
>>> 
>>> Then there's the matter of whether the statistics are identical.
>>> People at this point generally say that "the UN defines blah blah
>>> blah", but does the average doctor give a crap about how the UN
>>> defines it when he is filling out reports?  He's more concerned with
>>> the insurance company and the malpractice lawyers, both of whom affect
>>> his life directly.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> From what I understand they do a lot more bicycling than Mericans do. A lot
>> of people bike to work or shopping. I think Germans are more into outdoor
>> stuff like hiking than we are. In the US,  guns are a significant cause of
>> injuries and death.
>> 
>> In my opinion economies of scale don't really apply to health care, since
>> it's a "craft" business, like education. A surgical team can only operate
>> on one patient at a time, whether health care is nationalized or private. I
>> haven't particularly noticed doctors and nurses sitting idle looking for
>> work. If the government really wants to improve medical care it would
>> subsidize medical and nursing schools to graduate more trained people.
> 
> I found out a few years ago there are lots of bicycle races and
> competitions every year in the U.S.
> 

This has nothing to do with people bicycling every day.

-- 
Pete