Healthcare not in the United States of America

[eyedoc]

And suing doctors is not a sport in those places.

This.

I actually like the medical system in above third-world countries. And even in major cities in third-world (or near third world) countries can be pretty good. Part of the problem is actually American elitism, that we somehow think someone in Nicaragua or Bamako, Nali couldn't possibly have gotten a good education- but the fact is that books and the internet are in every medical school. Oftentimes the skill and knowledge of the Doctor is a result of his hard work (or sometime in the US his lack of it, and subsequent poor skill).

Being able to walk into a medical system overseas and get treatment within an hour for half for less of what it costs here is dang nice- but you pay cash on your way out. When you get government (mostly) out of the system and let economics take over, prices are par for the norm in the local economy.

For example, Managua (I've been to this one, though not as a patient): https://www.sermesa.com.ni/
The insides of the rooms look just like any other hospital. The only thing that surprised me was the windows into operating rooms (with disposable curtains). I'll have to find the photos I took. Edit: The socialist state hospital there sucks, though.

As doctor who has trained numerous third world doctors and worked with third world doctors in their home countries, I think the quality of their skills varies more than that of a US doctor.

[philip964]

Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones has had to cancel their tour. He requires heart valve replacement surgery.

Mick will be having his free UK National Health Service surgery at the Charing Cross Hospital in London. It has 4 out of 5 stars.

If I had Jagger’s money, I would be paying for a 5 out of 5 star hospital what ever the cost or location.

It’s April 1

[RoyGBiv]

The US healthcare industry, in my opinion, needs more free market forces.

This is the root of the problem that caused Obamacare in the first place. The free market has not been able to work in healthcare for quite some time.

There is not a free market in the US healthcare industry and hasn't been for a long time. You can't have the level of government involvement and regulation as we currently have and call it a free market.

What we have is a bastardized system that isn't very dissimilar to half adultery.

http://mises.org/wire/lower-health-care ... ry-freedom

http://mises.org/wire/do-we-have-free-m ... cal-system

100%

If you want to see what a Healthcare free market looks like, check out laser eye surgery..

[JustSomeOldGuy]

It has 4 out of 5 stars, because the 5th star didn't make it? I'm pretty sure Jagger can afford to go elsewhere.....

[philip964]

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/night ... a-treated/

Canada’s failed health system left 33 year old woman barren.

She has been prescribed grief therapy but they can’t see her for six months.

Oh another estimate of Medicare for all would just require doubling personal and corporate income tax.

[philip964]

Socialized Medicine is off the radar now with Trump in the White House. My liberal Facebook friends a now not shy about posting things like this.

A UK kid needs money to continue his treatment in the US.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding ... ourney2020

I guess the UK doctors said he would just die. So US doctors saved his life, but now he needs an up dated Metal knee as he grows and the UK won’t pay for it, after all he was going to die.