If I understand correctly, quite a number of medical insurance programs are at large in your country.
Must be quite a hassle to determine which one suits your needs best (at least, if you have a choice. You didn't seem to have that, Rusty).
Are so many people in the US diagnosed with some condition or the other? Both of you have issues, and for another one I know the same counts.
Rusty, wait one. People need to pay penalties for not signing in a health insurance contract?
And about that price increase in Minnesota, were those for people enrolling in ACA, or for those who stayed outside of it?
In conclusion, it is thus another system next to the already existing ones, but pointed towards those the traditional providers weren't willing to cover.
Seen from that perspective, one universal 'base' system does seem better.
Two reforms I'd dearly like to see in American heath care are published pricing and 30 day or free billing. It shouldn't be that hard to do in the computer era, but nobody knows what anything costs until after the fact. Sometimes 5 months after! By then who can remember well enough to dispute erroneous charges?;b;
It's a play on the old hacky joke "I just flew in from New York - and boy, are my arms tired".
-Actually, all of me is humiliated.
At some political decision level here on the old continent (beats me if its Belgian federal or European legislation), there's been a sort of law to prescribe generic medicines over the latest/hottest medicine in the sector, which should bring down the cost when purchasing at the pharmacy.
[Sleezebag] is terrible and repealing the ACA would be bad, but he is not packing the Supreme Court in the way FDR wanted to or in any way. Court packing is adding additional justices to the court beyond the current number. [Sleezebag] has done nothing of the sort; he's just filled two vacancies. The snaky part was implemented by McConnell, who kept a vacancy during Obama's term open until [Sleezebag] was elected.I will not dispute you on the absence of court packing from Donald [Sleezebag]. My comparison between Donald [Sleezebag] and Franklin Roosevelt illustrates both presidents' intention for the accumulation of influence on the Supreme Court through the installment of sympathetic of Supreme Court justices.
[Sleezebag] is terrible and repealing the ACA would be bad, but he is not packing the Supreme Court in the way FDR wanted to or in any way. Court packing is adding additional justices to the court beyond the current number. [Sleezebag] has done nothing of the sort; he's just filled two vacancies. The snaky part was implemented by McConnell, who kept a vacancy during Obama's term open until [Sleezebag] was elected.
IIRC, it was one of his failures because he tried to get the Congress to amend the Con or pass a law (I really think it was the amendment, but not sure) that would allow him to add more justices. The Congress refused and he had to wait to try to add more, but the things that were very socialist at the time (you would have liked them Bearu) were not implemented.
Although the overall effect was to increase the overall time of recovery from the Great Depression (and keep in mind, the thing that allowed the country to fully recover and get over it WAS The War...), it kept us from sliding into a more socialist state at the time. And with some of the Fascist that were also prevalent at the time, it would have likely taken a Socialist/Fascistic slant (although, on a 1D chart, they are opposite, if you use the 2D one that Jerry Pournelle had come up with, they would have had a common ground between them that could have taken elements from both)...
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The United States of America can learn more from Cuba's healthcare system through the removal of archaic laws and sanctions on Cuba from the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis.
The United States of America can learn more from Cuba's healthcare system through the removal of archaic laws and sanctions on Cuba from the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis.
How can a country learn more about another one's healthcare system simply by removing laws and sanctions still in effect?
I think every US resident so inclined can read up to his/her heart's content about the Cuban Healthcare system.
Poor choice of words here, Bearu. :P
I have only seen clips of "Sicko", by Michael Moore, but it did show that the US is far behind many other countries in health Care
I do know, that for a very long time (and may still be somewhat the case) that younger people in Cuba, so as to get some aspects of better overall care (food, housing, etc), intentionally had themselves infected with HIV. To me, that does not speak well towards the overall system, if their only hope is to contract a potentially fatal illness. I know these things as I've been POZ for over 25 years now... and that is one of the many things that I learned about this thing that I am forced to live with.