I'm not sure Medicare for all is a good idea, but our Medical System is beyond broken. No ability to shop around, insurance pays what they want, medical providers charge what they want. MRI at one place can be 1,000 and at another 10,000, My wife was getting her medacines at KMart a few years ago, 20 bucks, Kmart closed CVS wanted 187 for the same meds.
I fractured my face and collar bone in a slip and fall 2 years ago Ambulance ride, A few Xrays, and a cat scan. Bill was 13,500 bucks. I should have stayed home, there was no treatment except giving me a sling that I couldn't put on myself.
Contrast that with my total bill from Philippines when I went and had my health problems diagnosed.
Dr. Visit send for full lower ab sonogram, hepatitis B test, Hepatitis C, Test, Diabetes Test. Then normal battery blood tests.
2 medicines prescribed
Emergency room visit EKG, Full Chest Xray, sent for Echocardiogram. Blood Test for Kidney fuction, Blood test to see if having heart attack
2 More Meds prescribed.
Back to regular Dr. with Echocardiogram results
Total Bill for the 2 Dr. Visits, The Emergency room visit, all the testing, and 1 month supply of the 4 Meds (Plus Emergency Nitro)
Bill for all of that was 400 dollars. Thats about what it costs to knock on the door of a Dr. Office here in the USA.
Not only cheap, but there's no waiting for test results a week or 2 weeks. Because the Dr. sends out the bloodwork via an unsecure box outside the office for labcorp.
The caveat in the Philippines is that its cash or no treatment, and the Dr.s don't have the same level of training. Also the factory like setting the surgeons have here, they get more practice.
When I worked in a hotel in Orlando as a security supervisor I handled all the paperwork for injuries and illness for both tourists and employees, and the people from all the Western Countries except the USA automatically went to the hospital when sick or hurt, not like Americans that are sweating bullets if their credit is good because even with insurance you are screwed.
I looked up life expectancy at the time, and most western countries had a life expectancy greater than Americans, which shows overall their system works better. This was all pre-COVID.
I'm not sure how to fix the system, but maybe a blend between the three....
Can’t fix the system. The entire western medical petro-pharma and insurance system has to die completely. We need to regain our medical sovereignty and learn what real health is.
I'm not sure Medicare for all is a good idea, but our Medical System is beyond broken. No ability to shop around, insurance pays what they want, medical providers charge what they want. MRI at one place can be 1,000 and at another 10,000, My wife was getting her medacines at KMart a few years ago, 20 bucks, Kmart closed CVS wanted 187 for the same meds.
I fractured my face and collar bone in a slip and fall 2 years ago Ambulance ride, A few Xrays, and a cat scan. Bill was 13,500 bucks. I should have stayed home, there was no treatment except giving me a sling that I couldn't put on myself.
Contrast that with my total bill from Philippines when I went and had my health problems diagnosed.
Dr. Visit send for full lower ab sonogram, hepatitis B test, Hepatitis C, Test, Diabetes Test. Then normal battery blood tests.
2 medicines prescribed
Emergency room visit EKG, Full Chest Xray, sent for Echocardiogram. Blood Test for Kidney fuction, Blood test to see if having heart attack
2 More Meds prescribed.
Back to regular Dr. with Echocardiogram results
Total Bill for the 2 Dr. Visits, The Emergency room visit, all the testing, and 1 month supply of the 4 Meds (Plus Emergency Nitro)
Bill for all of that was 400 dollars. Thats about what it costs to knock on the door of a Dr. Office here in the USA.
Not only cheap, but there's no waiting for test results a week or 2 weeks. Because the Dr. sends out the bloodwork via an unsecure box outside the office for labcorp.
The caveat in the Philippines is that its cash or no treatment, and the Dr.s don't have the same level of training. Also the factory like setting the surgeons have here, they get more practice.
When I worked in a hotel in Orlando as a security supervisor I handled all the paperwork for injuries and illness for both tourists and employees, and the people from all the Western Countries except the USA automatically went to the hospital when sick or hurt, not like Americans that are sweating bullets if their credit is good because even with insurance you are screwed.
I looked up life expectancy at the time, and most western countries had a life expectancy greater than Americans, which shows overall their system works better. This was all pre-COVID.
I'm not sure how to fix the system, but maybe a blend between the three....
Can’t fix the system. The entire western medical petro-pharma and insurance system has to die completely. We need to regain our medical sovereignty and learn what real health is.