American health care?? good or bad?
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No, it should not be like other countries. Our system needs to be fixed, but it isn't just the health care and insurance companies, lawsuits are a big cause. An average family doctor, not a surgeon, or specialist, pays on average $20,000. It should never be that high, but frivolous lawsuits. An ER doctor in Missouri was sued for $1,000,000 after he broke a patients rib and punctured his lung after giving chest compressions when his heart stopped. The doctor saved the man's life, and his lung and ribs are OK, but said the pain was unbearable as he was healing. If the doctor let him die, there would've been no lawsuit. Things like this jack up the cost of insurance, and force doctors and hospitals to charge more.
good if you can afford it
Like everything else in life; it could be improved.
If your rich, great, if your poor...
but I'm Canadian, so money isn't an issue
Having a former relative in the industry and being a client in it I like most of it and would not want to trade it for the likes of other countries.
Disgusting, only the rich and well off can afford it!
Evil
expensive,but great.
I think it should be like something else, but not what it is. When a drug is released at high dollar amounts based more on how much lobbying was done then how much testing was done, and we have to find out after people start dying, there is something wrong.
The French seem to have a good universal health care system. In America, if you have health insurance, your health care is good. If you don't, you could be denied access to certain hospitals and be forced to less than suitable conditions in clinics.
Heath care is wonderful if you can afford it.
It has its ups and downs.
Cons:
-Expensive!
-Poor at detecting conditions that are treated w/o expensive medication and surgery
-Doctors are skeptical of patients, overdiagnosis of psychological conditions often at the expense of missing physical disease
-FDA blanket regulations and legal liability discourages experimentation, competition, and innovation (but less so than most places, we get this consequences without the benefits of universal coverage)
-Overprescription of antibiotics
Pros:
-America leads in the contribution of new medicines and technologies
-Rare, risky, and complicated procedures are available if you can afford it
-Access to advanced screening devices and surgical procedures
-Generally fast response time (even if it takes you 10 years to pay it back, they'll get to you quickly)
The United States has the best health care in the world (which really says something about the quality of health care in other countries). Our system is not the best. I worry (like many Americans) that the quality of our health care will go down if we have a national health care system. There are not enough doctors and nurses now and the problem will only get worse. I think we should focus first on trying to adequately staff our medical centers so that we can process more patients more efficiently (and hopefully better) before we try adding several million more patients to the overcrowded system.
just to be clear, I am not against a coverage for all policy I just shudder at the idea that we would insure everyone without setting up an infrastructure to support the policy.
It works really well for me. I'm not rich or really that well off either as others have implied you have to be.
I'm just an average joe.
Awesome if you can afford full coverage.
Great if you don't pay a dime--just ask people who treat Medicaid patients.
Any other country doesn't compare to our system, regardless of what anyone wants to say.
It's the best in the world!
I've had two surgeries in the last year- I'm not well off, but the surgery was not simple and if you look at me you'd never know I had the surgery..
I've been with the same company for 10 years, but I've seen welfare recipients treated by the same doctors as me.
I challenge all those recipients of Canadian health care to say they have the best- I have heard of being put on a waiting list to have a broken bone set in Canada, for God's sake!
The more big brother gets involved the worse things get,. Watch the movie, "Brazil"
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