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Originally Posted by cmac2012
The British-UK model strikes me as the least desirable of the existing systems. Fresh Air on NPR had a great piece yesterday from a guy who traveled the world and sampled the various systems:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112172939
The French model is said by many I've heard talk about it to be about the best of the lot.
I'm thinking that some sort of single payer method with major triage and preventive care counseling for the underclass that is now sucking down major $$ by clogging up ERs around the country would be an improvement. We're paying for it now - we could make it more efficient.
People of means could continue to pay for their more luxurious, more rapid care. |
No plan is going to be good for everyone. It is easy to find fault because there will be fault. It's impossible for there not to be.
My grandmother is French, and my parents are there now taking care of her. There are certain things that are great over there, and certain things that aren't. Some of the things that aren't have to do with the culture. One of the things I don't like is that it's hard for my grandmother to get care because she's over 90. Now the death panelers would salivate over that, but the truth is it's more the French attitude than the French system that causes that.
It's great to look at the good and bad of other systems we may model after. But there are so many factors that can't be judged well. How many people live there, how many doctors, how many hospitals are there, how many ORs, etc.. Wait lists are obviously a true concern in social systems. But so far, most of the social systems are in countries with less of everything than they have here.