make sure that your healthcare system [...] works
And because of the impossibility of reform, instead of having a sound tax-financed system with a mix of private and public care institutions we have gotten one which desperately tries to block all private alternatives, but which allows privately financed health insurance with which you can skip the lines in both public hospitals and the handful or private ones they haven't manage to stop.
Marvelous, innit? Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
There is actually a wide variety of approaches to health care in Europe (and the industrialised world in general.)
Many mix public and private institutions, many have private health insurance systems in parallel to state funding.
While none are as inefficient as the "privatised" american system, all of them, from the market-liberal Germans to completely state controlled Norwegians, are being squeezed by rising costs.
The fact is, people get older as we get more and more treatments and a more efficient health care system.
Hospitals hold the ultimate captive market. The better they work the more customers they have.
Moving the deck chairs around isn't going to unsink the Titanic. If you want a better functioning health care system you have to increase the funding or stop treating people.
Hospitals hold the ultimate captive market. The better they work the more customers they have. Moving the deck chairs around isn't going to unsink the Titanic. If you want a better functioning health care system you have to increase the funding or stop treating people.
heh, i would have thought the better the hospital, the faster they'd move the customers out.
till the common wisdom about diet changes, and it's easier -and cheaper- to get a soyburger than a dead cowburger, no amount of deck chair repositioning is ever going to work efficiently, let alone keep pace with boomer aging.
last week they arrested nurses in america for protesting the absence of any single payer plan, health providers are heartily p-o'd that they have insurance companies ruling how they treat patients.
her in yurp it's better, but hospitals remain germ traps, and doctors aren't thrilled with the arrangements, all the while working ridiculous hours guaranteed to cause burnout. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
