I've heard wait times to see a Dr. in Canada are insane. And that there is a huge doctor shortage.
And hey I'm not saying our system is perfect, but I do not trust the gov't. I always challenge people to name one thing the gov't does better than private.
Private schools vs public schools
Private roads vs public roads
Private delivery companies (UPS/FedEx) vs gov't postal service
I have yet to think about one thing the gov't does better. Private isn't perfect, but there is accountability and competition with generally gets better service. Now, the problem with healthcare is the fact that there is no price comparison. (President Trump was trying to change that) which means they can charge whatever they want for an X ray and you can't shop around for better deals. There is also a problem with not letting insurance companies cross state lines which lowers competition. More competition, price transparency, and SOME regulations (nothing crazy) would help a lot.
Ultimately, I just do not trust that the gov't has my best interest at heart in regards to healthcare or pretty much anything. I want them involved in my life as little as humanly possible.
I completely agree. Canada's system is a disaster. In Canada, they also have comfort wards because they do not have enough physicians to treat patients. My neighbor's dad was put in a comfort ward to die despite having treatable conditions. The physicians made this choice not him or his family. My neighbor flipped out at the physicians in the comfort ward and said you don't go to med school to let people die and so on. Then they gave him a bunch of treatments and he was fine. That was 10 years ago and he just celebrated his 91st birthday. If my neighbor never yelled at the physicians in the comfort ward his dad would have died.
My dad's friend was also paralyzed due to a rare nerve condition and was operated on 28 days later. The nerve condition he had requires emergency surgery within 48 hours because time is function. My dad's friend never walked again. I actually know someone who had the same condition in the US, was operated on immediately and it took a few years but he walked again
I am going to be a physician and if medicine became socialized I would do something else. I do not want to work for the government. The government cannot even run a DMV and people want them to run their healthcare LOL. The Veteran's Administration used to be a disaster before Trump cleaned it up.
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan
I know right! It is absolutely disgusting. Americans are so stupid to want this. This country does not care about health, we are probably the fattest country. I also think the stories claiming that people lose their houses or have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills are propaganda, sure some might be true but it is blown out of proportion. There are 31 million uninsured in America. Some of those people are homeless, some are mentally ill. I had a patient who is mentally ill that qualifies for Medicaid but they chose not to sign up for it and they would have never come to the doctor if they didn't break their hip, they also won't sign themselves up for a doctors appointment even if there was socialized medicine. I also have patients who chose not to have insurance. One patient and his wife have the option to get insurance at work and they elected not to because they think they are young and don't need it. They may have changed their minds after they had to pay for wrist surgery after a snowboarding accident. Anyways so another population of that 31 million has to be people who chose not to get it. One of my patients has pretty decent insurance and she is a cashier at McDonald's. I think the people who get stuck with these "bills" probably put themselves in that situation or they just want to live off the government. Those people aren't worth destroying the system for.
One of my dad's friends from hockey came here to play in the NHL and then went back to Canada after his career. He wanted to get his hip replaced but in Canada, he didn't want to wait 8 months because if you wait that long for a hip replacement when you are at end-stage osteoarthritis you will get herniated discs in your back and end up needing back surgery. So he came to the US and paid for it out of pocket because he had enough money from playing in the NHL. There are plenty of people from Canada that also come here for heart surgeries and pay full price because they will die if they wait 6 months in Canada.
My dad had an extended stay in the hospital a few years ago like a solid month and a half. He had to pay maybe a couple of hundred dollars of his $150K bill because he had great insurance because he had a very great job. I have literally always seen having great insurance as one of the many incentives to get a great job. This world is backwards and dangerous.
So, if you are low-priority, the wait times are stupid. A lot of people have issues that are hard to / impossible to fix and diagnose, and those end up back of the line.
But mom had a cancer scare and was cleared in a week from beginning to end.
I think private/public combined healthcare is much better. Right now, those people who can afford private healthcare must wait in the same line as people who can't.
I would be okay with some sort of combination. I think the idea of having free clinics is very good to help with basic stuff. I wouldn't mind those having a combination of federal/private funding.
I'm also big on incentives. Have a loan forgiveness plan if doctors donate so many hours of their time to working in free clinics, etc. That may encourage more people to become doctors that don't feel like they can afford the outrageous tuition.
I feel like there are SO many different solutions to these problems, but everyone is too busy fighting instead of compromising and coming up with real workable solutions.
I will say our healthcare was a million times better before Obama touched it. Obamacare was a disaster. I used to have a simple plan for $135 a month. It had a high out of pocket deductible ($5K), but $5K does not put you in the poor house, and $135 a month was doable for us even though money was very tight back then.
Now, for a plan like I had in 2010, it would cost at least $1,000 a month. It's crazy!
I've heard wait times to see a Dr. in Canada are insane. And that there is a huge doctor shortage.
And hey I'm not saying our system is perfect, but I do not trust the gov't. I always challenge people to name one thing the gov't does better than private.
Private schools vs public schools Private roads vs public roads Private delivery companies (UPS/FedEx) vs gov't postal service
I have yet to think about one thing the gov't does better. Private isn't perfect, but there is accountability and competition with generally gets better service. Now, the problem with healthcare is the fact that there is no price comparison. (President Trump was trying to change that) which means they can charge whatever they want for an X ray and you can't shop around for better deals. There is also a problem with not letting insurance companies cross state lines which lowers competition. More competition, price transparency, and SOME regulations (nothing crazy) would help a lot.
Ultimately, I just do not trust that the gov't has my best interest at heart in regards to healthcare or pretty much anything. I want them involved in my life as little as humanly possible.
I completely agree. Canada's system is a disaster. In Canada, they also have comfort wards because they do not have enough physicians to treat patients. My neighbor's dad was put in a comfort ward to die despite having treatable conditions. The physicians made this choice not him or his family. My neighbor flipped out at the physicians in the comfort ward and said you don't go to med school to let people die and so on. Then they gave him a bunch of treatments and he was fine. That was 10 years ago and he just celebrated his 91st birthday. If my neighbor never yelled at the physicians in the comfort ward his dad would have died.
My dad's friend was also paralyzed due to a rare nerve condition and was operated on 28 days later. The nerve condition he had requires emergency surgery within 48 hours because time is function. My dad's friend never walked again. I actually know someone who had the same condition in the US, was operated on immediately and it took a few years but he walked again
I am going to be a physician and if medicine became socialized I would do something else. I do not want to work for the government. The government cannot even run a DMV and people want them to run their healthcare LOL. The Veteran's Administration used to be a disaster before Trump cleaned it up.
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan
Ugh Hearing those horrible stories makes me sick!
I know right! It is absolutely disgusting. Americans are so stupid to want this. This country does not care about health, we are probably the fattest country. I also think the stories claiming that people lose their houses or have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills are propaganda, sure some might be true but it is blown out of proportion. There are 31 million uninsured in America. Some of those people are homeless, some are mentally ill. I had a patient who is mentally ill that qualifies for Medicaid but they chose not to sign up for it and they would have never come to the doctor if they didn't break their hip, they also won't sign themselves up for a doctors appointment even if there was socialized medicine. I also have patients who chose not to have insurance. One patient and his wife have the option to get insurance at work and they elected not to because they think they are young and don't need it. They may have changed their minds after they had to pay for wrist surgery after a snowboarding accident. Anyways so another population of that 31 million has to be people who chose not to get it. One of my patients has pretty decent insurance and she is a cashier at McDonald's. I think the people who get stuck with these "bills" probably put themselves in that situation or they just want to live off the government. Those people aren't worth destroying the system for.
One of my dad's friends from hockey came here to play in the NHL and then went back to Canada after his career. He wanted to get his hip replaced but in Canada, he didn't want to wait 8 months because if you wait that long for a hip replacement when you are at end-stage osteoarthritis you will get herniated discs in your back and end up needing back surgery. So he came to the US and paid for it out of pocket because he had enough money from playing in the NHL. There are plenty of people from Canada that also come here for heart surgeries and pay full price because they will die if they wait 6 months in Canada.
My dad had an extended stay in the hospital a few years ago like a solid month and a half. He had to pay maybe a couple of hundred dollars of his $150K bill because he had great insurance because he had a very great job. I have literally always seen having great insurance as one of the many incentives to get a great job. This world is backwards and dangerous.
So, if you are low-priority, the wait times are stupid. A lot of people have issues that are hard to / impossible to fix and diagnose, and those end up back of the line.
But mom had a cancer scare and was cleared in a week from beginning to end.
I think private/public combined healthcare is much better. Right now, those people who can afford private healthcare must wait in the same line as people who can't.
Absolutely retarded.
I would be okay with some sort of combination. I think the idea of having free clinics is very good to help with basic stuff. I wouldn't mind those having a combination of federal/private funding.
I'm also big on incentives. Have a loan forgiveness plan if doctors donate so many hours of their time to working in free clinics, etc. That may encourage more people to become doctors that don't feel like they can afford the outrageous tuition.
I feel like there are SO many different solutions to these problems, but everyone is too busy fighting instead of compromising and coming up with real workable solutions.
I will say our healthcare was a million times better before Obama touched it. Obamacare was a disaster. I used to have a simple plan for $135 a month. It had a high out of pocket deductible ($5K), but $5K does not put you in the poor house, and $135 a month was doable for us even though money was very tight back then.
Now, for a plan like I had in 2010, it would cost at least $1,000 a month. It's crazy!