I watched most of the video, too confusing and long.
does anyone have a better or more fair system ready to take care of uninsured people in the US?
I wouldn't mind hearing about a better solution to health care.
This is better then nothing for the millions of people going without insurance in the US even those working poor are not covered by insurance right now.
When they get ill, they either go to a pay per visit clinic which is not much better then going to a drug pusher as they don't offer any real solutions other then take these pills and come back for another $95. visit or go to the ER if it get worst.
People going to the ER can't pay their bills so in the end tax payers are paying for it anyways but the ill person is not being treated in a perventative way or with much thought.
I know of no other reasonable country that doesn't care if it's citizens die or not from lack of health coverage or care.
It has to be the biggest shame on the US.
When my husband was 61 1/2 years old he was laid off like many other people, no health coverage any longer etc.
The stress of it all gave him symptoms of a heart attack.
I drove him to the closet ER, not wanting to call an ambulance because of the extra cost.
2 days in hospital, several reading of his BP and 4 or 5 lab test later, they gave him a 30 days script for xanax and said see a doctor.
The bill came in to over $32,000 for 2 days stay!
The doctors fees were another $3,000 or so.
Of course that almost sent him into his grave seeing that bill.
The patients advocates contacted us, looked over our bank accounts etc. and had the bill reduced to only $2,000. Who picked up the rest of the tab? Did the hospital do it for charity, I don't think so.
How can they justify $32,000 for just laying in a hospital bed for 48 hours and a few tests one of which seemed to be timed only to make him stay another day so they could bill for the whole day stay.
He was so angry about the way they were handling it all that he walked out of his hospital bed at 3 am on the second day before they could charge for a 3rd day.
Now here in Hungary we both have Nationa lHealth Care at a affordable cost of around $30. a month each.
I have been to private doctors here in the past and I so far find the service to be the same in the national program.
I have a Bakers cyst in my knee.
Just walked up the st. half block to the local hospital and sat for less then one hour to see the doctor.
Got paperwork for lab tests the next day, and x-ray the same day and med's for swelling and pain along with meds for rebuilding my joints.
Also had referral to an orthopedic doctor which I saw 10 days later.
Now I am just about finished with my private physical therapy , 2 times a week for over and hour each visit with a sweet young lady they found for me who speaks perfect English.
I think for my $30. a month I have more then gotten my monies worth.
Of course most people do tip the doctors on the side, not every visit and not allot, depends on if they did surgery or just gave you a referral as to how much you tip them. They do not hassle you for the tips but it is a curtisy sort of thing that goes back to the old times.
I plan on giving my therapist about $30. for my 8 visits with her.
I gave my GP only $25. tip and he saw my husband for his BP at the same time.
Gave the orthopedic doctor $50. because I know I will be going back for some cortizone shots or surgery at some point.
The doctors do not make allot of money over here like in the US, in fact many young doctors work here for a couple of years then go off to the UK or Germany to make more money because they can.
All jobs pay for their employees health coverage here, about the same rate of $30. a month.
The sales taxes here are 25% Vat and most wages are taxed high up to 50% but people here still seem to be living well enough, maybe most don't have 2,000sq. ft. homes and swimming pools in their yards but they are doing fine.
Why can't the US give affordable coverage to the people, if anyone thinks they are just too good for it, then pay out of pocket for a private doctor, like snobs do here.
Honestly from my experiences with all family members here there is no real difference in private or national coverage, maybe they give you a slightly better hospital room in private care, that's about it.
Yes, the GP's office was in a hospital that was over 100 years old but the equipment was new and the the new add on where I recieved my X-ray was brand new and beautiful inside, not dumpy and run down like the clinics for the uninsured in the US.
In fact they speak better English to me then the nurses and doctors did in the clinics in the US and they know how to read medical charts. Had a non -English speaking nurse in a US clinic give the doctor my son's medical records while he was examining me, took him over 5 min's to realize I was not a 25 year old man.