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| Oct 04, 2009 6:29 pm |
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re: re: re: re: Medical Inventions require Capitalism? |
Thomas Holford
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John Stephen Veitch sayeth:
"Thomas sometimes for a grown man with experience of the world, your bias and lack of real knowledge is shocking."
Admittedly, I lack real knowledge of the actual practices of the U.K.'s National Health Service (the largest employer in Europe). But my synthetic knowledge tells me that the following might be the case:
In the U.S., a seventy-five year old coot with a leaky heart valve is regarded as a potential customer and source of revenue by your local neighborhood cardiologist in private practice.
In the U.K., the same seventy-five year old coot would be regarded as an unjustifiable cost to the National Health Service.
I'm not quite sure what standing such a coot would have in New Zealand. Based on things I have read on the internet, the New Zealand government would have only the sincerest high regard for his dignity, unlimited compassion for his plight, and make available to him an unlimited claim on the national treasury to obtain any medically efficacious remedy known to science.
T. HolfordPrivate Reply to Thomas Holford (new win) |
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