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8/19/2002; 1:29 PM by Jim RoepckeLast Modified
8/19/2002; 1:29 PM by Jim RoepckeIn Response To
Re: John Q (#5502)Label
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On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 07:31 AM, Brian Carnell
wrote:
> At 03:05 AM 8/19/2002 -0400, Jim wrote:
>
>> We went over to Alex and Ruth's for dinner, and then stayed to watch
>> the
>> movie they'd rented, John Q (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0251160).
>>
>> It's hard to watch that kind of movie. I've got young kids.
>> Thankfully I
>> don't have an HMO.
>
> Actually the Canadian national health system is one big HMO (actually,
> of
> course, multiple different provincial HMOs).
>
> If your child needed an organ transplant, he or she would be much better
> off in the American health system than the Canadian health system.
No they wouldn't, because we don't have American health insurance. I
couldn't afford it down there.
> Canada performs significantly fewer organ transplants on a per capita
> basis than does the United States.
Which could mean a lot of things, like, perhaps Americans are more
willing to "do whatever it takes" on average than people from other
countries. I think we've had that discussion before too. It could mean
an awful lot of other things too.
> With heart transplants, the U.S. only performs about 25 percent more
> transplants than Canada per capita, but with liver and kidney
> transplants,
> the U.S. performs 40 to 60 percent more transplants on a per capita
> basis
> than Canada does.
I don't see how frequency comes into play. Sure, a person here might be
on a very long wait list, but unless I'm not understanding something, it
would be covered under our health care system.
Jim
wrote:
> At 03:05 AM 8/19/2002 -0400, Jim wrote:
>
>> We went over to Alex and Ruth's for dinner, and then stayed to watch
>> the
>> movie they'd rented, John Q (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0251160).
>>
>> It's hard to watch that kind of movie. I've got young kids.
>> Thankfully I
>> don't have an HMO.
>
> Actually the Canadian national health system is one big HMO (actually,
> of
> course, multiple different provincial HMOs).
>
> If your child needed an organ transplant, he or she would be much better
> off in the American health system than the Canadian health system.
No they wouldn't, because we don't have American health insurance. I
couldn't afford it down there.
> Canada performs significantly fewer organ transplants on a per capita
> basis than does the United States.
Which could mean a lot of things, like, perhaps Americans are more
willing to "do whatever it takes" on average than people from other
countries. I think we've had that discussion before too. It could mean
an awful lot of other things too.
> With heart transplants, the U.S. only performs about 25 percent more
> transplants than Canada per capita, but with liver and kidney
> transplants,
> the U.S. performs 40 to 60 percent more transplants on a per capita
> basis
> than Canada does.
I don't see how frequency comes into play. Sure, a person here might be
on a very long wait list, but unless I'm not understanding something, it
would be covered under our health care system.
Jim
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