Friday, November 15, 2013

More on Health Care Delivery




·         This post has received many positive responses. One blogger even copied my entire post and discussion to another forum.

·         I hope ObamaCare will be delayed. It could take us to a recession with higher taxes to pay for and less hiring by small businesses due to the fear of any extra cost. If it requires the company to implement when the number of employees reaches 50, small businesses will cut down the employees to that number and/or hire part-timers that will not be counted for this purpose.

·         "Healthcare reform has been an outstanding success in Massachusetts," a famous author says, calling it a "template" for the nation.”

My arguments against it:

1. Mass. is a rich state with relatively educated citizens. It is the same argument that any political system and national health care system would work in Norway as they're so rich and they can afford to be nice.

2. The welfare, entitlements...are too generous and eventually will kill the state. We in Mass. no longer afford manufacturing of low-cost products and many companies already have moved to southern states. When we have too many free loaders and too few givers, we'll bankrupt or drive the rich away as demonstrated in Greece.

·         Singapore is spending 2% of GDP in its world-class health care, Israel is spending 8% of GDP on health care and we are spending 18%.

·         A recent research study reported: 0.5% of Canadians come to the U.S. for elective care; 99.39% do not come to the U.S. for medical care, and 0.11% seeks emergency care within the U.S. (i.e. as tourists).

Many Canadians cannot wait for the medical care and some die during the long wait. When you are rich and healthy, you want to pay the insurance yourself and not for other folks’ health insurance. There is no perfect solution.

The U.S. must protect themselves from these ‘tourist patients’ and illegal aliens that are burdening our emergency rooms and bankrupting our system.

·         Surgeries will be performed by robots to save us time and money in the next ten years.

·         The hurting patient pleaded painfully to the outsourced doctor to get him someone who could speak English. The doctor said, “If I not English, what language I talking?” J

·         Click here for more Afterthoughts. We have too many comments on this article.

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