[lbo-talk] Krugman & Health Care costs

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> channels, etc.).  There are whole host of U.S. health system apologetics
that
> hinge on the fact that while the U. S. system is not the fairest or the
> cheapest or the safest or the most universal AT LEAST we have high
quality.
> The quality argument is probably a big unexamined lie.

One of them is no waiting lists.  Bullshit.  There are, but they are not
called waiting lists but "next available appointments"   - which is usually
two to eight weeks from "now" depending on the doctor and the treatment.

Wojtek