discuss the healtcare system in america?
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Needs work. Too much taking advantage of the guy on the bottom. Businesses don't like to contribute.\n\nIt can ruin you financially if you get sick and didn't plan for asset disburstment. (don't have the house in your name if you are going to be SICK)
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Repuglican idea: screw you get your own. \nDemocrat idea: national health care set up on the order of Canada or England.
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Good Luck, join the crowd of Americans with no insurance. Thank you Mr. Bush! There are state funded insurance you might qualify for, but they are usually closed to new patients. Or you can go to your city public health department, they can help you out.
505157
western medicine is better at curing, and alternative is better at prevention. I don't have experience with Eastern medical practices.
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Wow! I'm amazed by the bias and misunderstanding evidenced in the answers so far. . . I have lived in a country with "socialized medicine" (Denmark) so I know something about it.  To answer the question, I believe that the U.S. may now be the only western country without a national socialized health-care system.  \n\nAs some mentioned here, in socialized medicine, taxes or other federal and state revenues would pay for our individual medical costs.  But to assume that this would automatically be a big hardship for the taxpayer shows a misunderstanding of the way such a system works and the options in the set-up that we would need to consider.  \n\nThere are many ways to pay for socialized health care, and they don't always involve raised taxes.  For one example, consider this: right now, our tax dollars are wasted to an enormous degree on the pet projects of various legislators - projects that most of us do not know about and wouldn't care to be paying for!  I would like to see some of this "pork-barrel" spending done away with (and I believe that we are moving in that direction as people educate themselves about it and demand change) - that would go a long way toward funding things like a national health-care system.  Other forms of government waste exist also, where funds would be better spent on insuring all our citizens.\n\nThe biggest thing that would worry me personally about such a system, and that may be much of the reason why we don't yet have it in the U.S., is that its establishment would necessarily require some level of federal-level regulation.  Americans (myself included) have a traditional distaste for too much government control on the federal level.  \n\nBut in this case, federal regulation and the meddling that would come with it,  may be a necessary evil that we need to consider - because the alternative is to keep going along the path we are on, in which with every year we see fewer employers able to insure employees, the costs of individually-purchased policies grow more outlandish, and the numbers of uninsured citizens increase by thousands.\n\nI think that it is telling that we are the last free-world, western, civilized nation to NOT be insuring ALL its citizens.  In America, we believe that citizens have a birth right to some things - like education and social security.  I believe we need to start believing as a nation that everyone has a right to be treated when they are ill without it bankrupting them.  It's really a right to LIVE.  It seems elementary that we would want to keep all our citizens healthy, not just the wealthy and lucky.  Something is going to have to give, and soon. \n\nMac at ASKEW\nhttp://askew.blogharbor.com
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I don't like the American system much.  Even though you have twenty years of experience, you will still need to go through the whole training process again and getting a good residency placement is very difficult.  \n\nThis puts off many experienced British and European doctors from immigrating to the US!\n\nYou will have more luck with Britain.
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Yeah... it's getting to the point where the majority of America won't be able to go to the doctor, because they can't afford insurance or the deductable, if they have insurance. \n\nI think it all comes down to... how much are you willing to pay to stay alive.. the answer is anything, so how does a capitolistic system work when you will pay anything for the service... it doesn't work... \n\nthe healthcare companies (both medical, insurance, both malpractice and health, and perscription companies) are all making huge profits... if you know anyone in the business, they are probably making more than most everyone else you know...\n\nWhen does the bubble bust... I think it will soon... especially if costs continue to go up like they have been.
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Medical facilities for America?  Maybe you are from a different country.  Your question s too broad considering there are many different types of medical facilities in America, and even more different types of specialties and support jobs.  I doubt if you will find satisfaction in this inquiry; try narrowing your scope.
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Sadly there likely is a website explaining the very thing you ask.  However I would caution you in doing so.  Your writing structure is decent so I'm guessing you are educated to some degree and either trying to make a statement or just have shitty insurance.  Could be you are just a regular middle class person like myself who is frightened to go to the doctor in fear of having to take a second mortgage out on your house to have any medical procedure done.  I think your question belongs before the house of representatives, not in this forum.  There are millions, no probably more than that, Americans in the same situation asking themselves the same question.  Pathetic really and very very sad.
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well i think you should start by going onto some US hospital websites.\n\nhave a look there. there are are normally staff contact lists and stuff like that, giving details of tel numbers, email addresses etc..\n\nhope that helps
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The United States of America or France. Between the USA and France, the two countries have the best medical technology in the world. Now, fees in France I do not know. BUT~ the internet or a school financial advisor could give you a ballpark. You see, I have no idea if you are specializing and what you are specializing in or if at all and each thing could makes the fess different. I do know that the US has an excellent student loan program. As to France, I do not know.
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Hospitals offer everyone emergency care whether they can pay or not.  Medicaid is a government-run health insurance program that helps low income folks with their care.\n\nIt's still a problem though.  I have a friend with leukemia, and she doesn't have health insurance and she earns too much money to qualify for government assistance, but not enough to pay for her treatment.  The American Cancer Society is paying for her treatment, but not her prescriptions.  It's far from a perfect system.\n\nI have another friend in Canada, where health care is socialized.  She had a worrisome spot on her skin and also a lump under her skin.  Her doctor was concerned and referred her to a specialist.  She had to wait 6 months before she could get an appointment.  It turns out it wasn't cancer, but if it was, that wait could have killed her.  That system is very far from perfect too.\n\nAs far as bankruptcy, there's not a whole lot of shame in it anymore, and if it was for medical reasons, it won't hurt your chances for a loan as much as you may think.  Bankruptcy only stays on your financial records for 7 years, so it won't haunt you for your whole life.\n\nBut your general premise that being poor is not as advantageous as being wealthy is right.  It's true in many ways including in health care.
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I am opposed.\n\nWhen socialized medicine is enacted a single huge infusion of money is provided.  Then all growth stops.  When the profit incentive is removed how many people will be doing research on newer and better diagnostic tools and procedures.  Okay, that would be the government and we all know how efficient the government is.  \n\nIf you want to do some research, check out the number of MRI machines, or CT scans, or any other sophisticated diagnostic tool per person in England or Canada or any other country with socialized medicine.  \n\nMy uncle had open heart surgery 5 days after his doctor said he needed it.  A co-worker was under the knife in 4 days and a former boss had his surgery 3 days after the decision was made.  All three of these men were very ill and wouldn't have lasted long untreated.  I have read where 2 and 3 year waits are not uncommon in Canada.  Haven't heard how well England does getting things done.\n\nTo be fair I worked with a German for many years and we discussed the issue on several occasions.  He said that under the German system everyone had an annual physical.  I would never say that is "a bad thing".  On the contrary it would almost certainly make for a healthier populace.\n\nStill, with all things being equal, I'll stay with my current system.\n\nI heard someone say that if you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free.
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Here are all the centers in USA and Canada.\nhttp://www.healthclubdirectory.com/health_club/clubResults/
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If anyone has to go through Parkland Hospital's Emergency Room in Dallas, Tx, they won't say they don't think America has a health care problem.  The line to be triaged is up to two hours long, the wait for prescriptions is over four hours and then patients are often refused the prescription because of one reason or another; patients are often refused treatment for not having the mountain of required proper paperwork and the indigent are treated like sub-humans.\n\nThe reason the govt. won't improve America's health care is because the 30% of insured Americans with great coverages are the same 30% who control the resources of our country, and as you can see, they don't see a problem.
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Goverments should do it. They are set by the people to take care of the people? Unless of course you live in America.
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Public health system: Americans demand the best and most up to date health care - that costs. We also have a LOT of hypochondriacs that drive up the cost of health care, because they order every concievable test. Americans also are less likely to see a primary care physician regularly.\n\nMore importantly, because most people aren't paying out of pocket for health care, the costs actually go up, because no one shops around. That drives up everyone elses cost, and really screws the poor uninsured bastards.\n\nWorse, since many people don't see a doctor regularly, they instead go to the ER when something goes wrong - which drives up costs since prevention is far cheaper than solving the problem once it's gone to hell.\n\nHowever, the claim that there is no public health system is partially false. Life-threatening treatment will be provided. The indigent's treatment is paid for by the state, as are many children (into the lower-middle class). \n\nAlso, America's economy benefits greatly from the lack of a fully funded health system - the hard part is creating a public health system without hobbling the economy (like a large part of Europe).\n\n2.) Katrina's poor response is a good example of how federalism can backfire. In short, New Orleans is a crappy place to deal with an emergency, the local and state governments historically can't take a crap without going to committee (and overcharging the taxpayers), and the Feds assumed the Locals were going to bear the brunt of the planning. Whoops.