Came here to write this. "Medical officials" are corrupt and shitty. But they pale in comparison to the absolute tragedy that our government and insurance companies have perpetrated here. This is like an unholy hybrid of Vogon-level Commie bureaucracy with rapacious, sneaky-as-fuck oligopoly.
Updoot for making a comparison to Vogons. I live in Japan where there is socialized medicine, but the big difference is that Japan is 1. not a society of litigation and 2. not a country of mass, illegal immigration. As to the second point, the closest problem is especially Chinese who come here as tourists, somehow exploit the medical system, and return to their country and not pay the bills. In America, if some guy named Jose from Venezuela is rushed to the ER with a gunshot wound because he's a cretin, the hospital saves his live and never hears from him again. Then there are the frivolous lawsuits. My friend's wife had her own practice but when she saw what Obamacare would bring, she called it quits and became a tradwife, raising a family on a single income. He's an engineer, so they can afford it. Anyhow, Howard Dean at the time when Obamacare was being foisted on society even admitted himself that there would never be tort reform included in the package because the Democrat Party is beholden to the Trial Lawyers' Association.
So when Leftists in America look to socialized medicine as their ideal, they emulate Cuba or Canada rather than Japan where it actually sort of works. In America where you have healthcare legislation written by ambulance chasers, the individual is gonna get screwed. On the Right you have politicians who want you to pay through the nose for the medical industry to kill you, and on the Left you have politicians who want the medical industry to kill you "for free" (ie taxed to death). Either way, the medical industry kills you. That is the Rockefeller Western medical paradigm we live in.
I would add that, in my experience, Japan has a culture that is based upon honor/duty/shame, and the society is homogenous, largely. So abusing the system (any system - transport, etc.) is almost unthinkable.
In contrast, the USA is ethnically diverse, the culture of moving around has broken the link between people and their clan/tribe/neighborhood, and criminality is glorified. So don't count on any of that "I won't do this because what will Grammaw think" idea modulating actions.
You may abandon your body, but never your sacred honor. - Musashi-san
I realize the modern Japanese people are "no Musashi-san(s)". Most of them anyway. But still in some aspects, these ideas go to the bone.
P.S. The Chinese have a culture that glorifies cheating the "lao why"/gaijin. And as you know they love to hate the Japanese, which to my eye is mostly jealousy but if they need a reason they'll bring up Manchuria. So going over to Japan to steal medical services would be right up their street. They do it in the USA as well, I am guessing.
As for the tort reform issues in the USA: "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Shakespeare, Henry VI.
Considering a marriage certificate is an actual merger of the two person corporations to the government corporation this bad situation did them both a favor. Well, if they annulled it anyway. Otherwise all it did was remove God from between them and replaced Him with the State. Assuming it was a a religious bond to begin with. This one of the toughest gov contracts to get out of because it involves two people that have to be in agreement over it. Every single gov form that uses the ALL CAPS name is a contract that limits the natural living (wo)man in some way. Usually constitutional freedoms are given up.
Edit: now that I think about it. Medical bills are unsecured debt so they didn’t have to divorce. They could’ve just set it off using UCC-3. Knowledge is power.
IMO all medical goods and services should now be either non-profit or not-for-profit. Also, outlaw insurance. The insurance companies selling malpractice insurance, thereby forcing doctors to raise their rates, and then selling the patients medical insurance since we can no longer afford medical treatment, is an absolutely beautiful scam - if you can stomach such things.
That's all the gov't involvement I want in my medical decisions.
The malpractice insurance is because of frivolous lawsuits. My mom had leukemia for 15 years or so, which is essentially AIDS. She picked up a bacterial infection at a hospital which gave her a super high fever. They administered some experimental drug to take the fever down (dunno the name) and the side effect was that it shut down her colon. Her body poisoned itself to death. The hospital claimed she died from leukemia, but no, she died from the bacterial infection and the medicine, both from the hospital. Sure, my family could have sued and made a fortune, but where does that come from? Everyone else paying high hospital expenses. America is a society of litigation and healthcare legislation is written by ambulance chasers.
Trump's plan to force companies to sell their drugs at the same prices as they were to other countries was a very, very good one because of how much we fund the socialist healthcare systems of other countries by paying more here.
Thank you. Not sure what OP is trying to say with this one. Nurses, various hospital techs, EMTs, medics, etc are some of the most underpaid people in our society. I have buddies working construction framing and siding jobs making more than many health care providers (NPs, PAs, and some MDs). Hospitals are barely keeping afloat. I think others in this thread have more clarity when they blame govt, regulators, esp govt ‘insurance’ providers like CMS. I could go on, but, just wanted to thank u for the wisdom.
Government and insurance company involvement in medicine has caused prices to skyrocket.
More government involvement would be a disaster.
Came here to write this. "Medical officials" are corrupt and shitty. But they pale in comparison to the absolute tragedy that our government and insurance companies have perpetrated here. This is like an unholy hybrid of Vogon-level Commie bureaucracy with rapacious, sneaky-as-fuck oligopoly.
Updoot for making a comparison to Vogons. I live in Japan where there is socialized medicine, but the big difference is that Japan is 1. not a society of litigation and 2. not a country of mass, illegal immigration. As to the second point, the closest problem is especially Chinese who come here as tourists, somehow exploit the medical system, and return to their country and not pay the bills. In America, if some guy named Jose from Venezuela is rushed to the ER with a gunshot wound because he's a cretin, the hospital saves his live and never hears from him again. Then there are the frivolous lawsuits. My friend's wife had her own practice but when she saw what Obamacare would bring, she called it quits and became a tradwife, raising a family on a single income. He's an engineer, so they can afford it. Anyhow, Howard Dean at the time when Obamacare was being foisted on society even admitted himself that there would never be tort reform included in the package because the Democrat Party is beholden to the Trial Lawyers' Association.
So when Leftists in America look to socialized medicine as their ideal, they emulate Cuba or Canada rather than Japan where it actually sort of works. In America where you have healthcare legislation written by ambulance chasers, the individual is gonna get screwed. On the Right you have politicians who want you to pay through the nose for the medical industry to kill you, and on the Left you have politicians who want the medical industry to kill you "for free" (ie taxed to death). Either way, the medical industry kills you. That is the Rockefeller Western medical paradigm we live in.
Agreed on all points.
I would add that, in my experience, Japan has a culture that is based upon honor/duty/shame, and the society is homogenous, largely. So abusing the system (any system - transport, etc.) is almost unthinkable.
In contrast, the USA is ethnically diverse, the culture of moving around has broken the link between people and their clan/tribe/neighborhood, and criminality is glorified. So don't count on any of that "I won't do this because what will Grammaw think" idea modulating actions.
You may abandon your body, but never your sacred honor. - Musashi-san
I realize the modern Japanese people are "no Musashi-san(s)". Most of them anyway. But still in some aspects, these ideas go to the bone.
P.S. The Chinese have a culture that glorifies cheating the "lao why"/gaijin. And as you know they love to hate the Japanese, which to my eye is mostly jealousy but if they need a reason they'll bring up Manchuria. So going over to Japan to steal medical services would be right up their street. They do it in the USA as well, I am guessing.
As for the tort reform issues in the USA: "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Shakespeare, Henry VI.
Considering a marriage certificate is an actual merger of the two person corporations to the government corporation this bad situation did them both a favor. Well, if they annulled it anyway. Otherwise all it did was remove God from between them and replaced Him with the State. Assuming it was a a religious bond to begin with. This one of the toughest gov contracts to get out of because it involves two people that have to be in agreement over it. Every single gov form that uses the ALL CAPS name is a contract that limits the natural living (wo)man in some way. Usually constitutional freedoms are given up.
Edit: now that I think about it. Medical bills are unsecured debt so they didn’t have to divorce. They could’ve just set it off using UCC-3. Knowledge is power.
There's a little more to it than that.
IMO all medical goods and services should now be either non-profit or not-for-profit. Also, outlaw insurance. The insurance companies selling malpractice insurance, thereby forcing doctors to raise their rates, and then selling the patients medical insurance since we can no longer afford medical treatment, is an absolutely beautiful scam - if you can stomach such things.
That's all the gov't involvement I want in my medical decisions.
The malpractice insurance is because of frivolous lawsuits. My mom had leukemia for 15 years or so, which is essentially AIDS. She picked up a bacterial infection at a hospital which gave her a super high fever. They administered some experimental drug to take the fever down (dunno the name) and the side effect was that it shut down her colon. Her body poisoned itself to death. The hospital claimed she died from leukemia, but no, she died from the bacterial infection and the medicine, both from the hospital. Sure, my family could have sued and made a fortune, but where does that come from? Everyone else paying high hospital expenses. America is a society of litigation and healthcare legislation is written by ambulance chasers.
You're not wrong. I guess I should add that lawyers would only receive 5% of any awards to my wishlist.
That depends on one aspect:
Trump's plan to force companies to sell their drugs at the same prices as they were to other countries was a very, very good one because of how much we fund the socialist healthcare systems of other countries by paying more here.
Thank you. Not sure what OP is trying to say with this one. Nurses, various hospital techs, EMTs, medics, etc are some of the most underpaid people in our society. I have buddies working construction framing and siding jobs making more than many health care providers (NPs, PAs, and some MDs). Hospitals are barely keeping afloat. I think others in this thread have more clarity when they blame govt, regulators, esp govt ‘insurance’ providers like CMS. I could go on, but, just wanted to thank u for the wisdom.