Your country's medical care; does it like you?

[Zykon TheLich]

rk on the NHS are hough.

 

[Mnemophage]

OHIP kept me out of a wheelchair on three separate occasions, only one of which being my own stupid fault, all of which I'm very grateful for. I wish it would cover non-essential things like dentists and optometrists (I am getting blinder only slightly slower than I am getting poorer), but with Canada's current government I don't see that happening any time soon.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

My country's medical care loves me because I'm a profit center. Most of my problems are in my head, and mental health care does not get parity coverage. In a lot of cases, I've found that so few of my needs were actually covered by what little insurance I had, and the insurance premiums themselves were so high, I was better off going with the "crossed-fingers" plan of going out of pocket for my routine prescriptions, skipping checkups, and praying I didn't get in an accident.

 

[Limos]

I live in America, so our health care system is run by Hamalatsutatsunama the Dark and Terrible god of health insurance. I'll call him Hammy for short.

Anyway, since health care is a Buisness in America the Health Insurance companies and drug companies need to find ways to make more money. For Drugs it's done by jacking up the price on a drug that you patent so no one else can make it. So while a drug here costs 300 dollars per dose it only costs 3 dollars (or whatever the canadian currency is called) in Canada. For the Health insurance companies it's all about denying coverage wherever possible. If someone could possibly be saved by a new treatment that happens to be expensive but otherwise they will die the company will deny it on grounds of the drug being "unproven, experimental, unsafe". That way they get to keep all the monthly payments you've been sending them without the hassle of actually providing the service you are paying for.

 

[Limos]

I live in America, so our health care system is run by Hamalatsutatsunama the Dark and Terrible god of health insurance. I'll call him Hammy for short.

Anyway, since health care is a Buisness in America the Health Insurance companies and drug companies need to find ways to make more money. For Drugs it's done by jacking up the price on a drug that you patent so no one else can make it. So while a drug here costs 300 dollars per dose it only costs 3 dollars (or whatever the canadian currency is called) in Canada. For the Health insurance companies it's all about denying coverage wherever possible. If someone could possibly be saved by a new treatment that happens to be expensive but otherwise they will die the company will deny it on grounds of the drug being "unproven, experimental, unsafe". That way they get to keep all the monthly payments you've been sending them without the hassle of actually providing the service you are paying for.

AMEN! The one issue that would win my vote is even a hollow promise for complete Healthcare reform.

When I have assembled my robot army and taken over the country there will be full healthcare reform. Also the tax system would be scrapped and replaced with a flat tax. The law system would be reduced to be almost nothing except property rights, and murder laws. (Of course no rape and such.)

In addition the presidential election would be a complete popular vote. None of that outdated electoral college nonsense. And I would destroy both the republican and democratic party. They had a good run, but we need some new parties to step up.

After that I would go take over the other countries with my Robot armada. (By the way, to avoid any bad publicity all the robot weapons would be nonlethal.)

 

[elffymon]

well my bf has been in hospital twice this year for about 3 weeks total... and hasn't had to pay a cent.

 

[The Wooster]

Well, I was born at 28 weeks, with a punctured right lung. I was in SCBU (Special care baby unit) for the following 22 weeks.
That isn't so bad, until you consider that I needed a £7000 jab, three times a day. That's on top of the normal wages and equipment costs. I even died once, but they managed to revive me.

Mum reckons I cost the state about £250 000. That was in 1993.

So yeah, I think the NHS likes me. I sure owe it one.

Yeah I've heard injections of molten gold and liquid diamonds do wonders for punctured lungs.

 

[f1r2a3n4k5]

As much as people complain about the American health care system, I don't find any problems with it for me. Fortunately, I rarely get sick and never need to visit the doctor/dentist other than regular check-ins. Entirely the type of person who would not profit at all from socialised health care.

One thing that people often forget about socialising health care is that it takes all of the money to be made out of it. No money, no medical advancements. It's that simple. I dislike how it means that some treatments are kept from patients who need them, but the treatments wouldn't be developed were it not for the potential gains.

I feel that more of the reforming in healthcare needs to be within the interactions between patient and doctor.

 

[dalek sec]

I'm an American, I pray to god each night that I don't get sick or hurt badly.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

God bless the NHS....for all the fact those Tory scabs may bash it, it is still one of the best healthcare systems on the face of the earth.

I also calculate that it has most likely been a net earner for the British economy due to it's contributions in particular in terms of vaccination and also all other healthcare. This factor will have doubtless preserved the lives of millions of British people who, without the NHS, would most likely be dead or incapacitated today.

 

[TheBadass]

One thing that people often forget about socialising health care is that it takes all of the money to be made out of it. No money, no medical advancements. It's that simple. I dislike how it means that some treatments are kept from patients who need them, but the treatments wouldn't be developed were it not for the potential gains.

I think the UK spends more on cancer research than any other country in the world, and we have public healthcare. The government just pays for that, as well.

 

[Cpt. Red]

As much as people complain about the American health care system, I don't find any problems with it for me. Fortunately, I rarely get sick and never need to visit the doctor/dentist other than regular check-ins. Entirely the type of person who would not profit at all from socialised health care.

One thing that people often forget about socialising health care is that it takes all of the money to be made out of it. No money, no medical advancements. It's that simple. I dislike how it means that some treatments are kept from patients who need them, but the treatments wouldn't be developed were it not for the potential gains.

I feel that more of the reforming in healthcare needs to be within the interactions between patient and doctor.

So that would mean that in countries with free healthcare doesnt come up with new treatments? Let me just tell you this: WRONG! There are allot of advancement in those counties as well. The government would EARN money if someone would come up with a treatment that saved thousands of lives. So there is your potential gain.

And I need to go now so I wont have time to continue disproving your conclusion...

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

I live in Ireland, which means one of the most abominable health-care systems in the developed world. People waiting months for operations, hospitals overflowing to the point where they have to put some patients on beds in the corridors and an extortionate price, even though the healthcare system is supposed to be run by the government.

The most sickening thing of all is that we could have had a socialistic healthcare system since the 1950s, but the Catholic Church in Ireland blocked out that idea. Excuse me. I'm just going to go and beat up the Pope.

It's religion, it's not supposed to make sense.
In all seriousness thats complete Bullsh^t about it not being accepted.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I'm Australian. HAHA It's free Bitches!! On a serious note my country's really good at taking care of all it's citizens, we'll help anyone who asks politely.

Well, there are only twenty million of you, the fewer people there are, the easier it is to look after them.

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Yooou just made that up, didn't you? Mashing your numpad like there's no tomorrow....*mumble*