because the same does not apply to working individuals.
Does anyone know USA medical costs?
- Thread starter nobbie48
- Start date
because the same does not apply to working individuals.
Which worker would that be? The software developer? The office assistant? The cab driver? The accountant?
Or are you suggesting that we should also start ranking "need" on occupation specifics in addition to whether or not a person is working or not?
A long wait might be fine for a couch potato, but what of the retired person who would otherwise be active but for that bum knee? GDP gains come not only from working people, but also from retired people buying goods and services that have to be produced by working people. If you're shut in waiting for that knee, odds are that your elective spending is going to go way down.
Increasingly so as the population ages, and more and more money is locked up in their retirement funds.
We'll save a mint with murf's plan. The elderly will just keep getting bumped down the list every time one of society's valuable members gets a boo boo. No more need to worry about an aging population. Vote for murf!
OpenGambit
Banned
F that, i plan to be old and rich, if I am getting bumped down any list I am leaving and taking my ball with me.
another problem with funding is more of the populations is making less for the same job than 10-20 years ago particularly when you factor in inflation.
Also:
Longer life expectations but with extra health costs.
Companies invent expensive new meds and med equipment and we expect the hospitals to have them when we need them.
Most diseases are treated not cured = repeat customers.
Another thing that has to change in our medical system is a shift to prevention, not cure or treatment.
invictus43
Well-known member
The problem with that of course is that you can lead a horse to water..
Death by Fork?
+1 - IF you have insurance coverage in the States its much better than Canada. I broke my leg in a car crash a few months ago and it took about 10 hours to get fixed up at York Central. When I broke my wrist at Infineon I was out of the hospital in about an hour and they ran a whole battery of diagnostic tests on me
When I went for my MRI in Buffalo the place was deserted. I though it was closed
They were actually waiting on me.On one episode of Top Chef one of them cut himself and went to the hospital, I believe it was in Dallas. When he came back he told them all he had to wait about 6 hours. I was really surprised because I guess I just assumed that it was in and out down there like they all make you believe.
Probably a county ER, with him having no insurance. In the Canadian system, everyone waits. In the American system those with money rarely wait, while those without it do.
