Crisis analyst.

[Mr. Scram]

Many radiologists contract out their work to overseas radiologists who look at the imaging - Their daytime is our nighttime so the diagnoses can be ready the next day.

Whether the quality is worse or better or the same probably has nothing to do with the country as much as the tier of care the patient is at. Issues that are flagged as issues of concern for some patients are not for other patients because of "bad insurance itis".

This is why we really have only one choice to stop a race to the bottom on healthcare for most people, instituting a healthcare system that tries to give everybody top quality healthcare and standardizes on that. That way the care rich people receive is the same as the care everybody else receives. Thats essential because they pull the rest of the system up. Also, they cant "disinvest' in society so they can then claim that only thing keeping the economy going is health care. (as is happening now) That's a recipe for disaster.

A lot of countries do not have insurance tiers or anything like that. Many developed countries have chosen for a universal health care system that eliminates these woes.

[cdev]

(SARCASM FOLLOWS)

Everything changed on January 1, 1995 my friend. They just have not ever told us.

What about the poor multinational corporations? Public healthcare systems take profits right out of their mouths, discriminating against foreign healthcare providers.

Were it not for those vestigial, obsolete national healthcare systems, remnants of a bygone "age of compassion" saving lives that could not afford to be saved any other way, destroying profits, the people who chose not to purchase healthcare services in one country could go to others for care, or to sell their organs.

The magic of the marketplace.