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also need to know why USA style health care is such a bad thing.
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Have a look on Medsig (sorry, it is on Compuserve but there must be an
equivalent website or usenet) and see what people there say about HMOs.
Then think about the first people to fly the flag for HMO-style medicine in
the UK---like Michael Goldsmith who set up the Harrow private thing and ran
it until it was bankrupt. Then consider things like litigation costs and
malpractice insurance costs in the USA. Consider also the % of medical
costs spent on billing. Or the higher % of GDP spent on disease care in
the USA but no better national disease etc figures. Or the fact that until
recently they could not run a decent family doctor service.
I think I'll stop there.
Declan
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