From: Carbon on
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:34:34 -0700, Dinosaur_Sr wrote:

> Right now, insurance companies, individuals, health care providers and
> the sick people themselves make the decisions. What I really don't
> like about the system in Canada is it's a govt only thing. Even if you
> have the money to pay for the treatment, you can't get it in Canada if
> the govt says no. Right now a Canadian could go to the Us, but that
> could change.......

How do imagine that would happen? Armed guards at the borders?
From: Carbon on
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:43:04 -0700, Dinosaur_Sr wrote:

> The woman in Oregon who was denied an expensive drug by the govt, and
> when big pharma found out about it offered to comp the drug to the
> woman is a telling story. Big pharma is more ethical that the govt in
> these cases, and not for no reason. Comping the drug here and there
> cost big pharma nothing...but it is something the govt cannot do as
> the govt doesn't know how to be big pharma.

Oh yes, big pharma is a moral beacon for us all.
From: Carbon on
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:00:33 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> On 6-Sep-2009, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I do not care about Kennedy or Rangel. The discussion was whether
>> Palin is capable of holding high public office, and she clearly is
>> not.
>
> I would say that as an elected Gov, your opinion didn't count much
> there.

Your equally irrelevant opinion is noted.
From: Dinosaur_Sr on
On Sep 6, 1:09 pm, Carbon <nob...(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:34:34 -0700, Dinosaur_Sr wrote:
> > Right now, insurance companies, individuals, health care providers and
> > the sick people themselves make the decisions. What I really don't
> > like about the system in Canada is it's a govt only thing. Even if you
> > have the money to pay for the treatment, you can't get it in Canada if
> > the govt says no. Right now a Canadian could go to the Us, but that
> > could change.......
>
> How do imagine that would happen? Armed guards at the borders?

The facility simply will no longer be available
From: Dinosaur_Sr on
On Sep 6, 1:12 pm, Carbon <nob...(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:43:04 -0700, Dinosaur_Sr wrote:
> > The woman in Oregon who was denied an expensive drug by the govt, and
> > when big pharma found out about it offered to comp the drug to the
> > woman is a telling story. Big pharma is more ethical that the govt in
> > these cases, and not for no reason. Comping the drug here and there
> > cost big pharma nothing...but it is something the govt cannot do as
> > the govt doesn't know how to be big pharma.
>
> Oh yes, big pharma is a moral beacon for us all.

Moreso than the govt of Oregon, as a point of fact in at least one
case...and in my experience with these sorts of things, where there is
one, there are more.