db@cstvax.ed.ac.uk (10/10/86)
The latest issue of "New Statesman" (19/9/86) includes an article on health services in Britain. It quotes "The Economist" (April 1984) as saying the cost of health provision per head in the USA is four times that here, and that USA people are no healthier. The claim about relative health may or may not be attributed to the "Economist" article, it isn't clear. The recent posting to mod.politics claiming that transplants aren't done in Britain is inaccurate. We even do heart transplants (though many people think that a better standard of health care would be obtained if the money was spent elsewhere). Likewise, the claim that Britain doesn't finance medical research is also false. These new poets||Dave Berry..mcvax!ukc!cstvax!db||Why did we fight WW2 they scan ||CS postgrad, Univ. of Edinburgh||if not to they rhyme || (poem by Michelene Wandor) ||free verse -------