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Rohit Singh
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[Sat, 13 Sep 2003]
You are all wrong!
Yoohoo! Somebody finally blames
both the extreme lefties and the extreme right-wingers- for the
right reasons.
Realpolitik meets Pati, Patni Aur Woh : Part 2
See this. The Arabs are interested, and so are the Europeans.
Where to draw the line ?
In computational biology, most of the commercial motivation for research
comes from its usefulness in drug discovery. As such, its
interesting to follow the different health-care policies followed by
different societies. Of course, this stuff is so massively huge that even
a normal Joe should have more than a passing interest in it.
In India, health care is officially guaranteed but is unofficially unavailable. Depending on how much you can pay, you get better services. But relatively speaking, you get a lot more bang for your buck in India than anywhere else. The British have their National Health Service (?). And so do the Canadians. The flip side is, as I understand it, that if you want to go around the system (as you might need to) you really have to pay a lot. And then we have the Americans. If the American system is the portent of things to come, one wonders what health services would look like in the decades to come. Will all doctors and nurses become super-specialized, so they can offer services of only the expensive kind? Will there be no one to prescribe you something simple if you have a viral fever- ever noticed the vast range of DIY drugs available to Americans for self-medication? How much money should a doctor really make? How much money should a drug company really make? How much health-care is too much- do you really need to do all those "defensive medicine" tests?
Here's an article from NYT about what happens when people go overboard with free medical care, of the really expensive kind.