The Healthcare Threat

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+ ak85ka 　ڿڰۣڿڰۣ☸ڿڰۣڿڰۣ 3 months ago
Good work indeed!!! An 'up' vote for you!! Thanks for sharing...
+ George Sciberras. to appreciate the PPS, download it. 3 months ago
Thank God I live in Malta. Malta has a comprehensive health service which is funded from taxation and is free to patients.
All EU nationals resident in Malta are eligible to receive free medical treatment from government-funded hospitals and clinics.
Throughout the islands, all towns and villages have their own medical clinics. There are charges for prescription medicines, but people on low-income and those suffering from specified chronic diseases are exempt from payment. The Ministry of Health is responsible for the financing and provision of publicly funded health care services. Health care in public services is generally free at the point of use. Persons living in Malta and covered by Maltese social security legislation are entitled for public health care services in accordance with entitlements as determined from time to time by the Ministry of Health. EU citizens resident in Malta are entitled to equivalent consideration. Their entitlement has to be confirmed with and certified by the Entitlements’ Unit within the Ministry of Health. This official certification together with a personal identification document will be enough to receive health care in public health care services.
All drugs used in in-patient treatment and for the first three days after discharge are free of charge for the patient
+ Cece 425 3 months ago
Ok, ok, I have been watching this conversation and so now I have decided to weigh in. I take exception to the statement made that folks are dying in the Emergency rooms due deaths in emergency rooms due to lack of attention and long waiting times. Let me tell you that is not happening. Each patient is treated on a triage basis. In other words if you come in with a dang cold and someone with chest pain or broken bone, guess who gets seen first? In case you don’t know the answer it’s not the person with the cold.

Further more the so called rationing of health care now done by insurance company executives and administrators who have the final say on what treatments, care, and medical equipment patients can receive?. That is a joke. Private insurance companies set their plan according to Medicare and Medicade, which by the way are run by the dang crooked government. This all started in a plan called DRG’s. Trust when I tell you that because of DRG’s many healtcare workers lost their jobs.

Further more anyone that lives in THE USA can go to any hospital and get treatment. If they go to a for profit (private) then they are stablized and sent to another hospital (not for profit). ONLY if they are stable for transport.

Folks treat the Emergency Roomlike a dang clinic. Heaven forbid there is a holiday as they flood the ED after hours either the day before or the holiday night so they can get extra time off. Trust that happens all the dang time.

In California the illgeals have caused many hospitals to close or reduce thier services. See we take care of all folks. Our healthcare was in bad shape before we started letting everyone stay here that did not belong now it’s worse. We have seen and increase of certain diseases because of this that once was either eradicated or alomost eradicated. Hospitals all over have closed or reduced services because of this. California has been the most affected. No I do NOT live in California but have many friends who do and they work in healthcare as well.

Do we need a universal healthcare, hell no. We need true reform, like TORT, prescription meds, education, and the list goes on.

How do I know this? I work work in healtcare.
+ Carmen María Pérez 3 months ago
Congratulations, excelent and informative slideshow. My vote up. Greetings from Carmen María.
+ Howard Gunn 3 months ago
Thoughtful and informative. While a lot of cost issues are obvious, the outcomes from spending twice as much are even worse. Waiting in line for a late stage diognostic MRI in Canada and comparing it to the timely scheduling of late stage diognostics that we enjoy, at twice the price is also a bit misleading in one of the comments about the slide. Thanks for the work of putting some things in perspective.
+ ZUHAL S 3 months ago
INTERESTING.
I VOTE UP
GOOD LUCK :))
+ Sophotec 3 months ago
Unjustice in a society is always a problem worth fighting against - especially when it comes to the health of people. But we also need to be smart in how to fight it. Pointing fingers at executive pay and looking for government run healthcare seems emotionally the right thing, but not everything that feels right is necessarily the thing that will fix the system. In that respect, yes, I think costs are the key. Because even though it might sound cruel, everything needs to be paid for. And the key lays in improved efficiency.
+ varouj لله يكون معك 3 months ago
You must be drinking allot of cool aid perhaps if you turn the dial to FOX news you may be better informed some TRUTH.

Canada health care system a PARADISE ha... get your facts straight. Just for an example are you aware how long a patients have to wait just for an MRI.

What about the crooked politicians and are they willing to sign up to the same socialized health care program as they are driving down our throats. HELL NO. After all they are the elitist privileged public servants that have no clue of fiscal responsibility other then bowing to lobbyist, unions and more....

I vote for cost containment in every area in health care cost drivers including executive pay, legislative TORT reforms and more. ...
+ Jeffrey St. Clair 3 months ago
Is cost the only thing you can think of? What about the millions of Americans who are suffering in the U.S. daily as a result of lack of adequate health care? Bankruptcies, deaths in emergency rooms due to lack of attention and long waiting times, refusals of care by health insurance company administrators resulting in prolonged illness, emotional strife, maiming, and death… the list could go on and on. What about the health insurance profiteers who are bent on making higher and higher profits in order to boost their own salaries and pay their lawyers and lobbyists to prolong the untenable situation we are in today? What about the rationing of health care now done by insurance company executives and administrators who have the final say on what treatments, care, and medical equipment patients can receive? President Obama has assured us that the health care reform which goes into effect will be fiscally responsible. Let’s focus on making our country a better place in which to live and ensuring that health care is accessible to all.
+ Sophotec 3 months ago
Jeffrey - in the full text version I put it this way:

'So should we hurry up and copy the Japanese, German or Canadian healthcare system?

Obviously, these systems seem to be working more cost-effective than ours. But basically, they suffer from the same illness as the US system: rising costs without rising quality.

It’s like driving towards an abyss with 170 mph, and seeing all the other guys driving towards the same abyss, but only with 100 mph. Should we hop out and get into their cars?

My guess: we better change direction.'

(from www.sophotec,com)

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The Healthcare Threat by Johannes Bhakdi – sophotec.com 1 Healthcare Reform
Sophotec .com > full texts > downloads > more key policies Neutral solutions to the world’s problems. Progress for planet earth. VISIT
1. the problem Healthcare is the utlimate threat to the US
The largest cost in the US GDP 17% of GDP in 2008 $12,000 / year per family
Cost explosion Source: Health Affairs , 28, no. 2 (2009): w346-w357 $20,600 / year 20,3% of GDP
The ultimate threat $42,500 / year
The end: 2030 > 25% of GDP USA 1776 – 2030 The greatest nation of earth, died of terminal cost cancer
2. the others Canada & Europe are failures, too.
USA: spending (much!) more...
...and getting less. Doctors per 1000 citizens Life expectancy at birth
Everyone is moving in the wrong direction WRONG RIGHT Average Annual Growth Rates in Total Health Expenditures Per Capita, adjusted for inflation
3. two objectives We need lower costs and universal coverage.
Healthcare is the pillar of social peace and economic stability Objective 1 Affordable Healthcare Find a way to bring down healthcare costs while improving performance Objective 2 Universal healthcare Make sure everyone gets basic healthcare coverage
Affordable Healthcare NEXT: Part 2 – how to achieve August 13 th , 2009 sophotec.com Healthcare Reform
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