Yes, absolutely. The efficiencies of nationalised health insurance are enormous. It's too bad economsts are such ideologues because this merits study.
My mother gave me an example of towels. There was a query from the US as to why sterilied towel sales were so much less to hospitals in Australia than in the US. The short answer was that the towels are washed and reused in Australia. The chemical was destroys thm but you get a few uses out of each towel. In the US, they are thrown away after one use. The US system requires costs to be high; in our every-cent-you-can-save-you-can-keep system, all ingenuity goes into keeping costs low.
The insurance I carried in the US covered an air ambulance home.
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Date: 2005-01-31 08:59 am (UTC)My mother gave me an example of towels. There was a query from the US as to why sterilied towel sales were so much less to hospitals in Australia than in the US. The short answer was that the towels are washed and reused in Australia. The chemical was destroys thm but you get a few uses out of each towel. In the US, they are thrown away after one use. The US system requires costs to be high; in our every-cent-you-can-save-you-can-keep system, all ingenuity goes into keeping costs low.
The insurance I carried in the US covered an air ambulance home.