As another American, please feel free to express your opinions.
A robust debate on the optimum ways to finance healthcare fits in my definition of evidence-based healthcare--as long as evidence drives the discussion.
Jim
James M. Walker, MD, FACP
Chief Health Information Officer
Geisinger Health System
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
- Emerson Pugh
>>> "Shaneyfelt, Terry" <[log in to unmask]> 8/24/2009 10:12 AM >>>
As an American- please stay out of our business. What do you people (UK)
care about what we do with our health care system? Asking people to sign
a petition for some outside group to "inform" congress in the US about
the UK system. That doesn't sound biased in any way. Members of your own
parliament have urged that we don't change our system.
This board is supposed to be about EMB not politics.
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From: Evidence based health (EBH)
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ash Paul
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:50 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Combating misinformation about the NHS: do your bit for the
NHS which we are all proud of in the UK, inspite of its many faults!
Dear colleagues,
You might want to read this and sign this petition (it's the least we
can do for the NHS!!!!). Please forward it to all your colleagues and to
people, friends and family you know and trust in the UK:
HiMovement for change led by Obama in the US is at risk of collapsing,
in part because of the powerful medical insurance lobby and right-wing
propaganda machine spreading lies about the British health care system.
I have just signed a petition urging the US Congress and American people
to ignore the propaganda about the health system in Britain and to turn
the debate away from fear and lies -- I thought that you would want to
help set the record straight too! Click the link to sign the petition:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/reform_health_care_uk/96.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK
<http://www.avaaz.org/en/reform_health_care_uk/96.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK>
Regards,
Ash
Dr Ash Paul
Medical Director
NHS Bedfordshire
21 Kimbolton Road
Bedford
MK40 2AW
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