The problems with care-for-profit treatment has been there all along, too. Just a couple of weeks ago an 18 year old woman died from one of the most routine surgeries in the nation--breast augmentation. Last weekend there was a large article in the local paper about medication mistakes to infants; 1 out of 15 kids are harmed by medicine mix ups in hospitals. Dana Carvey's surgeon bypassed the wrong artery in his heart.

The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine estimates as many as "98,000 Americans die each year not from the medical conditions they checked in with, but from preventable medical errors."

But my original point remains; the statistics do not support the belief that socialized medical care is substandard, just as the statistics and empirical evidence refutes the opinion that VA care is substandard as compared to for-profit medical care.


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(You) now attack him (McCain) with outright lies.

Can you point out those outright lies?


Edited by goharley (04/08/08 09:38 PM)
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