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Ewoud, paging Ewoud
Robert Chung schreef:
Simon Brooke wrote: usufruct Ah yes. "Congrats on first use in rbr!" Missed it because it was in a gwhite-subthread and I tend to skip those, sorry. -- E. Dronkert |
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"Rigid Class System in Europe" Bob Roll Comments
in message om,
') wrote: Pudd'nhead Wilson wrote, and wrote, and wrote: or, if in short supply,... Sheesh!!! What isn't in short supply? ASCII, apparently. Apologies. I'll leave this thread now - it is way off topic. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ The Conservative Party is now dead. The corpse may still be twitching, but resurrection is not an option - unless Satan chucks them out of Hell as too objectionable even for him. |
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"Rigid Class System in Europe" Bob Roll Comments
Simon Brooke wrote:
') wrote: Pudd'nhead Wilson wrote, and wrote, and wrote: or, if in short supply,... Sheesh!!! What isn't in short supply? ASCII, apparently. Apologies. I'll leave this thread now - it is way off topic. No, please. Somebody needs to keep Greg (Pud-Pud) off the streets and out of trouble, and I think you're just the man for the job, 007. But do remember, the last six men who served Her Majesty in this capacity made the ultimate sacrifice for Queen and Country. Ta-ta, B |
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"Rigid Class System in Europe" Bob Roll Comments
Robert Chung wrote: Jack Hollis wrote: Britain spend less on health care than the US because the budget is a fixed amount. So it's not efficiency that doing it, it's rationing. They spend less and get better outcomes -- sounds like their "rationing" is pretty efficient. An Inconvenient Truth |
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Simon Brooke wrote:
Apologies. I'll leave this thread now - it is way off topic. wrote: No, please. Somebody needs to keep Greg (Pud-Pud) off the streets and out of trouble, and I think you're just the man for the job, 007. But do remember, the last six men who served Her Majesty in this capacity made the ultimate sacrifice for Queen and Country. Being slowly nibbled to death by a pomeranian. Even Dr. No didn't think of that. |
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Robert Chung wrote:
usufruct Ewoud Dronkert wrote: Ah yes. "Congrats on first use in rbr!" Missed it because it was in a gwhite-subthread and I tend to skip those, sorry. Is there a scrabble game going on that no one told me about ? |
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"Rigid Class System in Europe" Bob Roll Comments
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:52:00 +0100, Simon Brooke
wrote: In pre-modern Europe the overwhelming majority of land was commons, and people had usufruct rights only on the produce of the land. I think you might review Feudalism in Europe. |
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"Rigid Class System in Europe" Bob Roll Comments
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:35:26 GMT, Steven Bornfeld
wrote: Robert Chung wrote: Jack Hollis wrote: Britain spend less on health care than the US because the budget is a fixed amount. So it's not efficiency that doing it, it's rationing. They spend less and get better outcomes -- sounds like their "rationing" is pretty efficient. An Inconvenient Truth You want some inconveniet truths. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NHS scan delays 'put lives at risk' NHS patients in Scotland are being forced to wait up to nine months for potentially life-saving tests for heart disease, cancer and other serious illnesses. Drastic shortages of staff and equipment have led to "unacceptable" and "ridiculous" delays for diagnostic tests that the NHS classes as routine. Figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday show thousands of patients are waiting - often in fear and pain - for up to 36 weeks to receive brain scans, heart checks, endoscopy and other procedures. The delays are all the more serious because, from next year, no patient should have to wait more than nine weeks for most diagnostic tests. The new figures suggest it will be virtually impossible for hospitals to come anywhere near these targets. Politicians and patient groups fear the massive waiting times are allowing many patients' conditions to worsen, and could even be contributing to avoidable deaths. http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1178402006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a list of the waiting times for hospital admission in England from the NHS website http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/wa.../kh07_y00.html It's an absolute discrace. Anyone who thinks health care in the UK is anywhere near as good as whats available in the US is living in a fantasy world. |
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"Rigid Class System in Europe" Bob Roll Comments
Jack Hollis wrote:
Here is a list of the waiting times for hospital admission in England from the NHS website http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/wa.../kh07_y00.html It's an absolute discrace. Anyone who thinks health care in the UK is anywhere near as good as whats available in the US is living in a fantasy world. Hmmm. I'd say anyone who thinks that waiting time is the only determinant of quality of care isn't competent to discuss quality of care. On the other hand, outcomes are a reasonably good measure of the quality of care since they take into account the entire stream of services patients receive. Outcomes in the UK are comparable to those in the US -- and they achieve those comparable outcomes for about two-thirds of our cost. |
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"Rigid Class System in Europe" Bob Roll Comments
Robert Chung wrote:
Outcomes in the UK are comparable to those in the US -- and they achieve those comparable outcomes for about two-thirds of our cost. BTW, I'm not saying that the UK has the best health care system in the world -- when I say that it's comparable to the US, I mean that they're both roughly in the middle of the developed countries (which, as I've been saying, ain't the worst place in the world to be). For example, France is generally considered to have a better health care system than either the US or the UK. |
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