John Stossel in hospital with cancer. Slams our horrible medical system

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Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Get rid of the 40 million illegals bankrupting hospitals and everything would be fine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lung-cancer/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na

april 21 2016 “My doctors tell me my growth was caught early and I’ll be fine,” he wrote. “Soon I will barely notice that a fifth of my lung is gone. I believe them. After all, I’m at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. U.S. News & World Report ranked it No. 1 in New York. I get excellent medical care here.

“But as a consumer reporter, I have to say, the hospital’s customer service stinks. Doctors keep me waiting for hours, and no one bothers to call or email to say, ‘I’m running late.’ Few doctors give out their email address. Patients can’t communicate using modern technology.

“I get X-rays, EKG tests, echocardiograms, blood tests. Are all needed? I doubt it. But no one discusses that with me or mentions the cost. Why would they? The patient rarely pays directly. Government or insurance companies pay.”

“Customer service is sclerotic because hospitals are largely socialist bureaucracies,” Stossel added. “Instead of answering to consumers, which forces businesses to be nimble, hospitals report to government, lawyers and insurance companies.”
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Health care would work much better without a third party payment system. If everyone had to pay their own medical bills.then

1. People would take care of their health and when they got sick, would doctor themselves

2. People would haggle with doctors over prices

3. There would be very little fraud.
 
dear fucking idiots,


all other sane countries have taken the profit motive out of healthcare


your right win g stupid has never worked in reality


stop fucking lying about that
 
evince said:
dear fucking idiots,


all other sane countries have taken the profit motive out of healthcare


your right win g stupid has never worked in reality


stop fucking lying about that
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The USSR took profit out of farming and the country starved till they broke out their gold to import food.
Same thing happens with healthcare everywhere they try that nonsense.
 
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Celticguy said:
Profit in Healthcare gets you timely care. When you pay the same regardless how many patients you serve, you see fewer patients. This happens the world over.
Same thing happens in every endevor.
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You need to talk to some Canadians. My son in law hates the USA healthcare system. My friend's mother had breast cancer the same time I did, I just paid off the last of my credit card for my treatment! We compared our care, hers was first rate and timely, just like mine, but I went into debt and she didn't.
 
Rana said:
You need to talk to some Canadians. My son in law hates the USA healthcare system. My friend's mother had breast cancer the same time I did, I just paid off the last of my credit card for my treatment! We compared our care, hers was first rate and timely, just like mine, but I went into debt and she didn't.
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That is just bloody awful, surely medical insurance ought to cover that?
 
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