Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!steven From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Criticism of Dutch Government Message-ID: <6216@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 11:05:23 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.6216 Posted: Mon Dec 3 11:05:23 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:03:36 EST References: <1203@dciem.UUCP> <28100020@uicsl.UUCP> Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 14 In article <28100020@uicsl.UUCP> pollack@uicsl.UUCP writes: > CBS's "60 Minutes" did a piece called "Dutch Treat", in which they examined > the folly of "socialism". They showed [...lots of DREADFUL things deleted...] > free medical care, ... Well, to my knowledge, Holland doesn't have free medical care, alas. But what on earth is wrong with it? A whole nation being healthy without worrying how they're going to pay for it? Terrible! As an acquaintance of mine, an English brain-surgeon, said "any system where doctors have an interest in people being ill, isn't in those people's interest". Too right. Part of my definition of civilisation is free health care (another part is unarmed police). Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax