On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:57:34 -0500, Day Brown
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wrote:
>Hardpan wrote:
>>> The new system will also have to figure out what it can afford to pay
>>> for. Is it going to cover new livers for drunks? New lungs for smokers?
>>
>> Good questions.
>>
>> I am going to find out how the Canadians handle that issue. Maybe the
>> French healthcare system too for that matter, which is what I would
>> choose, had I the choice.
>>
>> I do know that incarcerated prisoners have what is socialized (and
>> they don't pay a dime in taxes either) medical healthcare and they
>> receive all manner of expensive medical treatments routinely.
>>
>> There was a big uproar a few years back here in CA when they gave a
>> liver transplant to a convicted killer, thus depriving another human
>> who didn't take a life from having that liver to live.
>>
>> How sad is that?
>Oh, it sux all right. And the AMA stranglehold, interested only in
>protecting its own membership adds enormously to the cost.
Yes, and lots of their members need to be sued, as thay are indeed
Quacks and unprofessionals, who are fleecing the public, at large.
>In my neck of Ozark woods, because the roads are so bad, they never
>stopped using and licensing midwives. So, the kids are born at home. And
>therefore, never exposed to the latest bugs going round in a hospital.
That's a major drawback to the US Medical system, where being born at
home is frowned upon. Probably because the doctors don't get a cut in
the deal so they can buy a new Corvette Stingray or a trip to Cancan.
>Training women to make family practice house calls would dramatically
>slow down the rate of exotic microbe transmission; Seniors would quit
>being exposed to new strains of bronchitis and pneumonia.
That's how its done under the French system of "socialized" health
care.
Hospitals are for major medical issues and as you have put it, and
a major source of deadly microbe transmission, needless to say.
>If the Republicans got behind licensing midwives and nurse practioners
>for house calls, they'd save the public so much money the push for
>socialized medicine would stall out. But they are too stupid to figure
>that out.
Yes, that would be a big help as far as it went, I agree, but it
wouldn't do to treat major traumas, disease and infections where
a clean room for surgery is needed. I know, as I spent two weeks
in a hospital, for a deadly infection from a ruptured appendix and
was close to death.
Perhaps you can see why I am so adamant about getting a national
health care plan established.
In the "old days" that procedure was semi-affordable to treat, but it
is no more, unless one has lots of money or goes into major debt,
which can ultimately lead to what was once called the "poor house".
