Why Obama is trying to bring about health care reform.

Nov 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM
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Hat tip to Lil Treva. I thought this was worth posting here. So often I read conservatives nitpicking health care in countries with Universal Health Care. I wonder what they have to say about this example of "the best health care system in the world".

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In fairness, bureaucratic cockups like that occur here, and I dare say anywhere that bean-counters surplant genuine service givers. That aspect aside, how in the name of all that is rational can five minutes of emergency care equate to $30,000 dollars AND result in a person dying? I'd be asking the question, at just what point in that five minutes was the person deceased? Bugger the itemised bill, I'd be demanding an itemised second-by-second timeline to account for each $100 incurred.

bureaucratic cockups like that occur here, and I dare say anywhere that bean-counters surplant genuine service givers.

True, but the conservative nit pickers make no allowance for that in their criticisms, so it seems only fair to respond in kind. The real kicker is that $30,000 bill which, as the father said, would not happen in any other civilised country.

I might have known nothing about the video if not for BOL posting it first.

One sentence keeps crossing my mind:
For that money, they should have saved his life.

For that money, they should have saved his life.

Well, maybe. I can see why medical bankruptcies account for over half of all bankruptcies in the U.S.

I was furious when I first saw this story, not the least because it occurred at a hospital run by a public university, UC Davis. It's become notorious for being the least charitable of all the hospitals in Sacramento, refusing to take indigent patients and sending them off to other public medical centers and clinics. They claim they're overrun with uninsured patients, but whose fault is that? Surely not the taxpayers who provide the salaries for their administrators, staff, and doctors.

Doctor's have to make a living, true. But at $30,000 for five minutes? Come on people. If we can do major reconstructive surgeries for the poor in other countries for $250, they can't try to save a guy's life at home for under $1,000?

$30,000? Seriously? I guess Insurance Companies didn't get a bail-out like the banks did.