Laim on Health Care - Who should make medical decisions DRs or MBAs?
I caught up to Laim at the 6-25-09 HCAN rally. Have a listen. Especially after the 50 second mark.
She makes three points
1. The lack of a profit motive in Germany means that no one is rejected for being too sick for health care
2. Obama needs to be pushed to the left.
3. Medical Insurance doesn’t allow the patient to heal as they shuffle patient care based on money not medical need.
Point number three resonates with me . I mean who do we want making medical decisions Doctors or MBAs? Her friend is in Hospital and is shuttled around based on insurance funding rather than needed care. So, she needs three weeks of therapy and is funded for only two weeks - her condition NEVER stabilizes because someone is chasing the bottom line.
I mean who takes the Hippocratic Oath? Insurance companies or Doctors?
Speaking of which via the Hippocratic Oath
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
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Government health care means not only will you have to worry about getting health care, but when you get, if you get and if paving a road isn’t a higher priority. Like it or not, health care is a limited resource like anything else and I don’t want mine competing for funding with welfare, highway projects and waging wasteful wars.
The sheer size of the U.S. population compared to countries with socialized health care makes any analogy highly suspect. Other countries also don’t support troops in 155 countries around the world, the money has to come from somewhere!
other countries don’t have the vast resources we have either - nice try
Vast resources? Are you referring to the apparent unlimited supply of paper and special ink to print more increasingly worthless money or some secretly held untapped source of wealth we weren’t aware of before now?
No wonder the country is $11 trillion in debt . . .it’s the vast resources . . .ROTFLOL!!! Comedy don’t get any better than that.
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