BBQMan: I'd agree with your points on our care being 'better' because we have triple the number of MRI/CAT/etc machines per capita if it actually produced results. I used to be in thatcamp.
Now, every study I see shows that the Medical Emperor has no clothes. We keep throwing more and more money at health care without caring where it goes. I worked for Beth Israel Hospital back during the events I described. We had whole floors of the hospital empty. Even though we didn't staff them, we still had to maintain them.
And with your example of CAT scan machines, all I can say is that, in the 1990s, when I had to go to the hospital in Montreal in the middle of the night, they wanted to send me for a CAT scan. How long would I have had to wait? Only until the tech got in at 9am. I had to refuse because my kids were alone in a hotel room and I *HAD* to get back once the pain was dealt with.
Katz: Yes, I know, there SHOULD have been a paper trail. We never saw the consent form, nobody would tell us who signed it and, to tell you the truth, we were scared of what the ramifications or consequences would be if we fought the case while my grandmother was still alive.
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