tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313064.post7284375114986349576..comments2024-02-05T11:44:29.403-06:00Comments on Child of Illusion: Preventable deathsEllie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313064.post-52749375548040346182008-01-10T22:21:00.000-06:002008-01-10T22:21:00.000-06:00Amen. I am a doctor's child. When I was young, in ...Amen. I am a doctor's child. When I was young, in the days before Medicare, at least 25-30% of his practice was pro-bono. He was very much against "socialized medicine."<BR/><BR/>Before he died in 1997, he had done at 180 on that. He said we needed universal, one-payer coverage for everyone with no insurance companies and that would greatly reduce costs. He said in the 1950's when he began, he could have never have imagined a system so expensive and profit driven that would cut so many individuals out of access to the health care services or medicines they would need. Further, it would have been unthinkable that a non-medical bureaucracy would be dictating how he could treat a patient--drugs, procedures, length of stay at hospital, etc. He was appalled.BooCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01193638351756858614noreply@blogger.com