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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Free lunches and bandages
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 11:32:19 EDT
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> The advocates of socialised medicine do not tell you what studies of the
> *quality* of health care have shown has happened in England and Canada.
> -- 
> Laura Creighton		

And the opponents of socialized medicine do not tell you that the British
National Health is the perhaps the most cost-effective system, in terms
of expenditure as a percentage of GDP per patient, in the world.  The US
spends *much* more per-capita for a level of care that is certainly sexier,
with two CAT scanners in every garage, but only slightly more effective
(an additional 2 months male life expectancy).

						Baba