Comments on: Health Care http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat Road to recovery of a fully torn Achilles tendon - weblog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: jacksprat http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/health-carecountry-rank-gdp-usdm-rank-gdp-usd/comment-page-1/#comment-60 jacksprat Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:57:13 +0000 http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/?page_id=19#comment-60 Shelley, I agree with you. An ATR is bad enough on its own, without money worries piled on top. For me, healthcare is an essential service to every citizen and like other essential services, e.g. Fire departments, Police, Armed Forces, etc. it should be run without profits as its goal. Could you imagine what it would be like if those services were businesses? You get an intruder in your house and the Police request your insurance policy number before coming out! Or your house is on fire but the Fire department says it is non-essential for your level of cover! For business its great; there will always be sick people and sick people will be keen to pay. Some UK private businesses involved in hospital maintenace make millions on 25 year contracts (e.g. $800 to change a light bulb) but on top they have cunningly located themselves off-shore and pay zero tax! Another private company got paid to do eye operations to reduce waiting times and brought in foreign doctors; after pressurising doctors to treat more people in less time the inevitable happend and a great deal of patients had there eyesight permanently damaged. Shelley,
I agree with you. An ATR is bad enough on its own, without money worries piled on top. For me, healthcare is an essential service to every citizen and like other essential services, e.g. Fire departments, Police, Armed Forces, etc. it should be run without profits as its goal.
Could you imagine what it would be like if those services were businesses? You get an intruder in your house and the Police request your insurance policy number before coming out! Or your house is on fire but the Fire department says it is non-essential for your level of cover!
For business its great; there will always be sick people and sick people will be keen to pay. Some UK private businesses involved in hospital maintenace make millions on 25 year contracts (e.g. $800 to change a light bulb) but on top they have cunningly located themselves off-shore and pay zero tax! Another private company got paid to do eye operations to reduce waiting times and brought in foreign doctors; after pressurising doctors to treat more people in less time the inevitable happend and a great deal of patients had there eyesight permanently damaged.

]]> By: shelley http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/health-carecountry-rank-gdp-usdm-rank-gdp-usd/comment-page-1/#comment-59 shelley Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:20:11 +0000 http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/?page_id=19#comment-59 Hi Jacksprat. I find your research very interesting. My husband & I have lived in various countries in Europe over the past 10 years and have used the health care system in England, Germany, Switzerland, and France. My first daughter was born in France, and my WEEK long stay was beyond my expectations. We are Canadian and now living back home in Canada. We are very lucky here that we don't have to worry about hospital bills if one of us gets sick, or hurt. I'm very grateful for that. However, there is lots of room for improvement with a shortage of doctors, up north where I live especially. It must be so hard for people in the USA to have to worry about the financial burden of all this. They should just be able to focus on getting better. Hi Jacksprat.
I find your research very interesting. My husband & I have lived in various countries in Europe over the past 10 years and have used the health care system in England, Germany, Switzerland, and France. My first daughter was born in France, and my WEEK long stay was beyond my expectations.

We are Canadian and now living back home in Canada. We are very lucky here that we don’t have to worry about hospital bills if one of us gets sick, or hurt. I’m very grateful for that. However, there is lots of room for improvement with a shortage of doctors, up north where I live especially.

It must be so hard for people in the USA to have to worry about the financial burden of all this. They should just be able to focus on getting better.

]]> By: jacksprat http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/health-carecountry-rank-gdp-usdm-rank-gdp-usd/comment-page-1/#comment-58 jacksprat Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:53:49 +0000 http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/?page_id=19#comment-58 Hi Annie, Wikipedia is great, a ton of stuff on everything! Who needs school! It wont be long before you can get a degree from Wikipedia! :-) Hi Annie,
Wikipedia is great, a ton of stuff on everything! Who needs school! It wont be long before you can get a degree from Wikipedia! :-)

]]> By: annieh http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/health-carecountry-rank-gdp-usdm-rank-gdp-usd/comment-page-1/#comment-57 annieh Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:41:24 +0000 http://achillesblog.com/jacksprat/?page_id=19#comment-57 Well Jacksprat, You really must have been bored to come up with all that. My hubby is an accountant and he would going through all those figures. It does, however, make very interesting reading!!! Annie Well Jacksprat,

You really must have been bored to come up with all that. My hubby is an accountant and he would going through all those figures. It does, however, make very interesting reading!!!

Annie

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