When Life Imitates “Seinfeld”: Doggie care in the UK
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Theodore Dalrymple, who compared human health care to doggie care, and found that the pets have certain advantages, which reminds one blogger of an episode of Seinfeld.
Dalrymple has several other worthwhile observations in the rest of his column, too many to list here, including thoughts on health care in France, European freeloading on American health care, charitable dog care, and health economics: "Health economics, after all, is an important and very complex science, if a somewhat dull one, indeed the most dismal branch of the dismal science."
On the sometimes unpleasant conditions in Britain's National Health Service, he says: "oddly enough, one of the things about the British National Health Service for human beings that has persuaded the British over its 60 years of existence that it is socially just is the difficulty and unpleasantness it throws in the way of patients, rich and poor alike: for equality has the connotation not only of justice, but of hardship and suffering."
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