Sounds like everything is working just fine to me.|||... because they can afford it, unlike most Americans. We are at an increasingly competitive disadvantage to countries who subsidize health care for all, so that neither the active work force nor retirees is dragging down the profits of small and big businesses alike. Why further handicap U.S. businesses in this way?|||People of limited means come here for treatment too. If you want quality health care you come to the U.S. Health care is a valuable service. It costs money.
Our current health care system is to UPS as the proposed plan is to the US mail. If you think you'll get better or even more affordable service from the government then you're living in a dream world. Not a single thing they stick their noses into works well. They can't even run the DMV properly.|||They can afford it. We cannot. There is a problem with that somewhere. Don't you think?|||It's not that care is bad on the US, it's that it's unaffordable. So foreign billionaires go to the US while Americans go to Europe or Canada.
Kinda warped, isn't it?|||They can pay, but Americans can't. So they die.|||My question is: How many people will miss the sarcasm in your question?|||It's not the medical professionals who suck, it's the professional thieves in the insurance racket.|||While at the same time people with more modest means like my family have to have lasik procedures in Mexico and Canda and buy our hearing aids in Denmark because even with plane tickets and hotels it's thousands of dollars cheaper than here.
As for the quality we'd do it again in a heartbeat.|||We have the best healthcare in the world, but we don't have the best healthcare SYSTEM in the world. We have a problem delivering our top-quality healthcare at a price everyone can afford, and I think the delivery system is important.
Canada and France may have better SYSTEMS than we do, but the quality of the care they provide is not comparable to ours. If you need elective surgery in those countries, you may have to wait 18 months to get it. Here, you might have to wait a few days to get it.|||Who said it was bad?....do you go to the drunk in the gutter for financial advise or health advice? Don't listen to stupid people there are an enormous amount of intelligent people who know that we must have the changes in health care that we are changing %26amp; that what we have that is great is really great. I once heard Bill Clinton speak about the subject %26amp; he is a brilliant man. He explained so clearly why it would work, why it was financially going to be better for us %26amp; what was being done....I know this is not focusing on your question directly. Our health care is only good if people can use it so I am saying it is great but we are not showing to be a Nation of people who are as healthy as those of other places in the world cause we can't afford to use our health care %26amp; many or really suffering.|||You can get everything THAT you can pay for in the US. The problem is that the insurance system is so dysfunctional many people have no insurance at all, or such a big copay that even a "normal" illness could financially ruin them even if they are "insured."
That's why so many people go to OTHER countries for treatment and surgeries including Canada, India and Mexico - the US system sucks!|||You answered your own question, Eddy.
You have to be a 'billionaire' to afford Rolls Royce treatment in the US.
The 'best' US doctors and the 'best' US hospitals have a policy of "Show me the money first!" before you are even looked at.
After graduating from med school they take the Oath to Mammon before the Hippocratic Oath.
There are very few American doctors in organizations like Medicins San Frontiers who support humanitarian medical work in needy third world countries ... they are too busy raking up the $$$$$ here in the US.|||They're billionaires, that's why|||You answered your own question, friend. Sure, billionaires come here but someone making 10 bucks an hour without health insurance is screwed. Do you not see we all can't afford "Rolls-Royce level treatment"?|||Everything always works fine for billionaires ;)
I live in the UK. Over here, as you may know, hospital care is free for everyone, rich or poor.
But some lucky people can afford to pay for private treatment, which means they will get it faster than the rest of us. No long waiting lists for them. And they're often treated in the same hospitals as the rest of us.
I've had two operations since February because my airway was closing from scarring.
While I was in, I noticed the private rooms.
It made me feel so low, second class and unimportant.
The private rooms had fancy curtains, pretty decor, and only one patient per room. The rest of us were in a shared, mixed ward (that's males and females together), with just a curtain between the beds (mine had blood on it from some unfortunate patient before me) and with a couple of feet between each bed.
Talk about feeling inferior!
Not that I minded others having the lovely rooms. Just that I wish all could be treated equally. Not to bring them down, but to raise everyone else up, if you know what I mean.
If we aren't equal in sickness, I don't believe we can say we are equal at all.
So I very much sympathise with Americans who can't afford good health insurance. It must be even worse for them.|||And our US Billionaires and middle classers travel around the world for quality treatment that isn't covered under their HMO policies in the US, or that is far cheaper and quicker than our current system.
A forecast by Deloitte Consulting published in August 2008 projected that medical tourism originating in the US could jump by a factor of ten over the next decade. An estimated 750,000 Americans went abroad for health care in 2007, and the report estimated that a million and a half would seek health care outside the US in 2008. The growth in medical tourism has the potential to cost US health care providers billions of dollars in lost revenue
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