Yes that is pretty much an accurate summation. I think the Mayo Clinic is the most advanced hospital in the world.
I also think that half of the top ten Hospitals in the world are in the USA.
Your also right in that anytime a world leader needs a major medical procedure done they typically come to the USA. I believe that Putin is an exception ? .
Putting US pride aside there are still some really top notch hospitals in other countries that are so much cheaper and offer the same service for 95% of the cases. I also like the fact that they are not bogged down in most countries by the constant lawsuits.
We really over pay for the hospital care in the USA. It's an all consuming beast that cannot be stopped by any Political party.
I can’t imagine if you couldn’t sue a hospital / Doctor.
Oh we cut off the wrong leg. Sorry. Have a nice day!!
It happens.
Hell, I had a guy I worked with who's Wife was wrongly Diagnosed 2 years ago in the ER.
They gave her the wrong meds without any test or consulting her records. It was just what the attending ER doctor thought.
She died within minutes after getting there.
Was it negligence? Was it because the doctor was working his 30 hour? Was it because that wasn’t her regular hospital and her records weren’t readily available?
Don’t know. A life was lost. Does that mean the hospital owes the guy Millions now?
If you can’t live until 100 now is that the fault of the doctors and institutions?
Did hospital board monitor their doctors better before? Did they head off things better or are we just expecting to live forever now?
Hospitals when started Were a service mostly provided by municipalities who recruited Doctors from college to treat their Citizens.
Insurance companies have been around for hundreds of years. They collect premiums based upon actuarial tables and statistical averages and payout services usual and Customary based upon prices across the country.
Are the insurance companies to blame if the cost of everything goes up?
I personally don’t believe so.
Are they trying to squeeze huge $ today out of the margins? Probably so.
Also back in the day not nearly as many things where treated. It was more battlefield treatment rather than every little thing and if you died.
Well that was life.
Every little things wasn’t treatable.
You had acne, well you had acne.
You had a scar, you had a scar.
You got Cancer, You died sometimes.
My pediatrician would come to the house to give us penicillin shots.
Would that even be an option today? Stuff has become so Antibiotic resistant would it even work?
He even gave my mother his home phone #.
He was a WW2 vet who got half his leg blown off during the war.
He wore this prosthetic leg piece from above the knee down and limped everywhere but was the kindest man you would ever meet.
Decided to go to Med school afterwards and became a Doctor to help people.
Was he rich? He was definitely more affluent than the rest of us who worked in the mines and factories but absolutely Nobody held that against him.
He was also 1 or a few doctors in the town.
I know many times he treated people for no money because he could..
He was a beloved member of our community.
He was just a GP not a specialists
Only time we saw one of those was if we broke a bone or shoved something in our eyes or maybe broke off teeth but still it wasn’t thousand of $$$.
Where does the fault lie?
Is it is that people can’t accept that sometimes people can’t be saved and sue everyone because of the pain?
The doctors who spend 10-20 years studying before going into practice not to mention the constant continuing education.
The Hospital who wants the latest MRI machine?
The Drug Companies ?
What is the definition of “Basic healthcare “??
I’m serious here. What is it?
Is it treating your average boo boos, Cuts scrapes, Fevers, stitches and such
OR
is it the most cutting edge research with unlimited resources and swappable organs?
Is everyone entitled to it?
Do We treat someone who smokes, drinks, uses drugs to excess and absolutely could not care about their health but demands we fix them anyway with absolutely no way to pay?
Where do we draw the line?
Do we limit every healthcare industry to a small fee?
Do you think people will give up half her lives studying to be a Doctor or specialist in a field for a small fee?
Do we mandate “You will be a Doctor for the rest of your life”
What kind of care will you get from such a person?
How do you treat 338,000,000 people to THEIR perceived satisfaction?
Nothing in life is free. Hard lesson to learn but buy 13 most of us did.
Please don’t start with these NHS countries.
I see more of them here than citizens getting fixed.
For every 1 person who claims 100% payment with 100% replaceable organs and specialist flown in from around the world to fix them there are 10 on the internet who have to wait 6 months for a biopsy.
I meet them every time I go to the doctor.
Canada, 38,000,000, UK 67,000,000 Sweden 10,000,000. , Findland 5,000,000 Norway 5,000,000
Grand total 120,000,000 or about 36% of USA.
We are the 3rd largest population on Earth Besides China and India.
Also with the largest GDP in the world it’s only 10th in the world GDP per Capita.
If that doesn’t tell you something nothing will.
