[Rhodes22-list] Lynn's reply and comment therein

[Tootle]

Lynn's point is accurate in describing the faculty at McGill:

http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/oncology/facandstaff.asp

However, he did not prove or illustrate that there was any choice available
other than the one she went and used.  Furthermore he did not rebut the time
to see an oncologist.  Specifically, under a controlled plan, she may have
only been permitted to see certain oncologist.  The writer's experience may
have lead to his limited view that is all that were available.  It may have
been all that were available to him in a reasonable time.

Lynn's statement, "So the guy who wrote that is a patent liar" may be true
or maybe the writer's
 remarks are from his perspective of the way it worked out.  Under
controlled plans does not mean automatic competent care.  

The person in charge of care under a controlled plan may or may not be a
competent and knowledgeable administrator.  Most likely that person is not
medically trained to make the medial decisions but rather goes to a list of
illness descriptions with numbers to determine if the procedure is allowed. 
Seldom do the numbers say that the care must begin today.

Typically to begin a plan of treatment under a controlled plan, even doctors
with medical training must get approval.  The doctor does not make the
decision, the plan does.  The doctor becomes a puppet on strings.  And often
if it is an expensive treatment, the decision goes to a committee.

So while the illustration is overtly antagonistic, so was Lynn’s reply. 
Again, a government controlled plan does not mean a competent plan, nor an
effective plan.

Socialism has been demonstrated to be a way to achieve failure.  The best
doctors choose not to be puppets controlled by strings.  So what is the
skill level of doctors left in the system?

The following cartoon, peviously posted illustrates to me the competence of
many contolled plan adinistrators, were the pirate is understood to be the
plan adiministrator (Sorry Lee):

http://www.nabble.com/file/p16628235/Cowboys%2Band%2BPirates.tif

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA







 


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