Biotech Values

[ilpapa]

I guess I should have written interventional procedure. I don't wish to appear cynical, but my recent experience of the annual physical was that it gave my doctor a chance to find employment for his expensive toys. Which is why I no longer have a primary care physician.

I have lived (meaning over a year) in Japan, Hong Kong, Cambodia (just for completeness, doesn't belong here) UK, France and Canada. I wasn't under the system of any of those but I necessarily was able to form an opinion of the quality of the medical systems in those countries. In my view Medicare is far and away the most generous and flexible (for the patient) of any system of socialized medicine I have come across. (And yes, I do mean that Medicare is socialized medicine.)