We say the two biggest lies are "check in the mail" and "It will not hurt a bit." Now, there is also the third biggest lie, that is, "We have the best healthcare system in the world," as Bill Clinton and George Bush said on several occasions during their terms. On the other hand, all the standard measures of health care quality points as our "best price-gouging and substandard health care system in the world." One such measure is to compare the cost and longevity. For example, Americans lived an average of 77 years at a cost of $ 4,800 per person per year, while Spain, Canada and Japan, and have a lifetime-to-cost ratio of 79 at $ 1,100, 81.5 years at $ 2,100, and 81 years at $ 2,000.
The second measure is the rate of infant deaths per thousand live births, while the U.S. has a rate comparable to third world countries, to 6.9 from 5.3 in Denmark, France, 4.6, 3.4 and 3 , 2 in Sweden in Japan. In addition, the World Health Organization ranks the United States as the 37th in the world, which puts us just behind Costa Rica.
So, we can see that people in other countries get better results for much less cost, suggesting that Americans are paying more for lower quality products and services. While President Obama and other politicians to acknowledge that health care is too expensive, they seem to be minimizing the fact that organized medicine has been given a royal flush to the public for decades.
Some of the problems with American health care as well as many other experts have also pointed out as follows:
Some of the problems with American health care as well as many other experts have also pointed out as follows:
...hospitals, nursing homes and clinics are unsure of the medical and nursing negligence as the fifth largest cause of death in the United States.
...out of control health care costs with 16% of gross domestic product (GDP) to $ 1 trillion which is a 250% increase over the past 25 years,
price gouging, with hospitals and doctors charge uninsured patients more than 1000% of what they accept from third party payers;
HMO premium price gouging with high deductibles charging 300% more for individuals who buy directly, but through the group,
Health care corporations are guilty of bilking billions of dollars of taxpayers' s scam billing practices;
doctors to perform unnecessary surgery with false diagnoses
H.M.O. members have to call for approval before going to the emergency room with call centers outside the non-professional staff in India and other countries;
administrative costs of the DRG and CPT codes $ 375 billion a year - 25% of the total health care expenditures;
Pharmaceutical companies obtain FDA approval for toxic drugs to pay a large research grants for medical research in order to achieve good results,
Pharmaceutical companies pay bribes to doctors to prescribe their over-priced toxic drugs with tens of thousands fall prey to the side.
This short list of fraud and racket is really the biggest, most damaging, and expensive criminal conspiracy in history. Perpetrators are HMO's, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and physician groups and politicians. Moreover, the political corruption is achieved through a set of lobbying to defeat all attempts to impose regulatory standards, we can see why we pay such exorbitant prices for such shabby health care.
to explain further, medical care has always been a business in which the seller decides what the consumer will buy and how much. Couple that control with the fear of death, a buyer will pay any price for it under any circumstances. Moreover, the people of our generation, and has previously raised believing our doctors and listening for the most part, what they recommend. Then medicine developed ranging from handicrafts to a commercial empire.
However, to our detriment, it is still thinking "doctor knows best" for decades, until the whole paradigm changed the ethics of accepting commercialism with a light corporate executives capturing financial control of health care operations and finding ways to deny coverage for expensive services and equipment rentals with prior approval of the application fraud. After a well-meaning doctor prescribes treatment, unprofessional decide whether a medical need. Doctors, who became financially dependent on their corporate "bosses" had to capitulate. Then Congress stepped in and gave the legislative immunity of the HMO's complaint for wrongful death and damages withholding approval for the treatment to sustain life, leaving physicians and hospitals holding the proverbial bag with malpractice lawsuits. The whole scenario is like putting a hungry shark in the pond care ribe.Morski dog, knowing that if you swallowed everything in one bite he will not last long, says each of his band members, "Something is wrong with the way his tail function so I'll have to bite off a part of it for your own good ", and delicious fish replied:" you're a doctor ."
In conclusion, there have been some other health care model of health care reform that come from various think tanks such as the "public good" that the government has provided or contracted for care, compared to the "utility model", which privately owned health care standards of quality and price controlled by the government agencies such as utilities. Although we got a lot of experts and politicians arguing the pros and cons for both, but I lack a viable solution.
On the other hand, to come up with a workable infrastructure, we must first abandon those policies ended in disaster, such as the use of financial incentives to control physician behavior, definition of health care and the provision of diagnostics, drugs and surgery and autocratic corporate control of treatment plans. Furthermore, we have to stop believing in this myth called "freedom of choice" as if it was a free choice in health care to begin with. This concept has become a way to reassure us to accept the plan crappy charging us more for less, saying: "We have preserved the freedom of choice." So what if I do not like the pond I swim in? Can I ask another one with a variety of shark.
On the other hand, there is another violin that had come from Washington, DC called "health reform". We now have a new president and his political hacks in Congress, who say that the revolution in the health care industry which is cheaper, better, more accessible and sigurnije.Problem is that the administration and the pork barrel Congress has no idea what would cause an error to prevent the murder of 200,000 people a year in hospitals across the country, even if they wanted to stop the massacre could not figure out how.
As we listen to political rhetoric about the current state of health and how to improve it, we get the feeling that health care was so bad, and we can do better. On the contrary, when we go to the hospital as a patient or to visit and see that people have to wait thirty minutes for a bed pan to avoid soiling themselves, we can wake up in another reality in a world of chaos. Therefore, as we examine new health program of health care reform, we can quickly determine that our elected officials plan to put more fish in ponds and say sharks to small bites.
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