Comments on: Gawande on health reform: "It is not single-payer" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gawande-on-health-reform-it-is-not.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gawande-on-health-reform-it-is-not.html/comment-page-1#comment-75726 Anonymous Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/gawande-on-health-reform-it-is-not-single-payer.html#comment-75726 funny.. they read medical blogs, but your previous readers don't seem to know who Gawande is. <br/><br/>he's pretty much synonymous with medical writing these days.. he does NOT write for the Tennessee Geurilla Women.. great stuff funny.. they read medical blogs, but your previous readers don’t seem to know who Gawande is.

he’s pretty much synonymous with medical writing these days.. he does NOT write for the Tennessee Geurilla Women.. great stuff

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gawande-on-health-reform-it-is-not.html/comment-page-1#comment-75693 Anonymous Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:24:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/gawande-on-health-reform-it-is-not-single-payer.html#comment-75693 Ummm, sorry but I don't buy the advice of ANYONE posting on "Tennessee Guerilla Women: Fighting the radical right in Tennessee and the rest of the nation". Ummm, sorry but I don’t buy the advice of ANYONE posting on “Tennessee Guerilla Women: Fighting the radical right in Tennessee and the rest of the nation”.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gawande-on-health-reform-it-is-not.html/comment-page-1#comment-75689 Anonymous Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/gawande-on-health-reform-it-is-not-single-payer.html#comment-75689 I know not whether Dr. Gawande is a good doctor, but about health care reform, he is either only partially informed, or outright disingenuous.<br/><br/>The "private" insurance system in Germany is actually a mandatory system backed by the state. Private insurance is of the top-off kind only. Oh, and the tag line for the state-provided care is "not enough to live, too much to die".<br/><br/>Cheers,<br/>Felix Kasza. I know not whether Dr. Gawande is a good doctor, but about health care reform, he is either only partially informed, or outright disingenuous.

The “private” insurance system in Germany is actually a mandatory system backed by the state. Private insurance is of the top-off kind only. Oh, and the tag line for the state-provided care is “not enough to live, too much to die”.

Cheers,
Felix Kasza.

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