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Originally Posted by Peaches
My mother ran a huge nursing home facility in FL for 20 years until retiring last month. My stepmother has been a midwife at a government run hospital for 10 years. My father has been a Medicare recipient for the last 7 years. I have heard horror stories from them, their co-workers, my own doctor, nurses and doctors in other locations, and since I took classes and am interning to do coding work and work with Medicare/caid, IMO, it's screwed up.
My father has kept his supplemental policy which he refuses to get rid of.
Meanwhile, like I said, I recently had almost $200K in medical bills and most were paid by BCBS before I even got home. It takes months to get something from Medicare/caid and they kick it back more times than they take it. The "joke" is that they are all trained to turn them all down the first time, lol.
People who think the health system is going to all warm and cozy if they elect the "right" people and get UHC are truly looking through very rose colored glasses. And if my book wasn't in the car, I could give you the ICD-9 code for that.  |
You're obviously saying the system needs change and improving. I can only speak for myself here but I'm not saying introducing a UHC will magically solve everything, I think it's more about improving the existing system for everyone.
Keyword: improving.
And your existing system obviously needs it.
Am I saying Canada has it perfect? No. But I
am saying I wouldn't trade ours for yours, not in a million years.
The only way you will truly have a great health care system in your country is if people stop arguing and railing against change and first just admit there needs to BE change... and then work together to build a better system. Canada certainly isn't the greates model to look to, but it does have it's strong points. So too do the health care setups in Sweden, Germany, Australia, and many other countries. There HAS to be enough good examples there to take something from each one and adapt it to the US.
What bothers me about your posts on this thread Peaches is that you seem to rail against any type of government involvement but I get the impression you desperately want to keep things as they are, yet you seem to admit that improvements are needed. Which is it?
I predict change is coming in the US. Maybe within the next 5 years. Will you be ready for it?