Re: If China wants to play ball with the big boys, let them help out in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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Re: If China wants to play ball with the big boys, let them help out in Iraq and Afghanistan...         

Group: alt.magick · Group Profile
Author: Chade
Date: Aug 29, 2008 08:10

On 29 Aug, 01:57, Erwin Hessle erwinhessle.com> wrote:
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>
> Yeah, you might want to get out of America once in a while and see how
> it works in these foreign utopias you've imagined. Try the free health
> "care" in the UK, for instance, and wait eighteen months for your
> first appointment with a specialist to examine your cancerous tumour.

Tangential, I know.

http://tinyurl.com/6fvnx3

(For you non-Brits a GP is a family doctor)
> Then, try getting denied life-saving cancer drugs because the
> government has decided they aren't very good value for money.

IIRC the threshold is, approximatively, 30,000 pounds (the equivalent
of about 54,000 U.S. dollars) for every year of life, of a certain
quality, that can be reasonably expected.
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