Death by bad health care

I need a glass of wine...

mexico is not in that graphic!, well we are not so much fucked up as U.S. but yeah you guys are fucked up, burgers are not a tradition so much, I mean you passed it on but, we dont have so many fast food restaurants, only yours.

take care U.S. :)

Why do we "must have" an industry that profits from our own health? The health insurance industry is there ONLY for profits. It stands in the way of the care we should receive from our physicians. It dictates whether we can live or die.

Health insurance industry is inherently EVIL!

We do NOT need the health care companies to control our lives! GET RID OF FOR-MAX-PROFIT HEALTH INSURANCE industry!!!

The health industry and the health insurance companies are truly the murderers and the terrorists this nation must fight with every possible means.

AH! Last night a woman was screaming outside of my sister's apt. on the sidewalk, an apparent victim of domestic violence. Her arm looked like it was out of socket, so I asked her if she needed an ambulance. She said no, because She Couldn't Pay for it! An officer came to take a statement and the woman refused medical attention again. So here is a victim of a crime who, on top of her ordeal, had to weigh out the costs of getting help for herself.

"What is funny is that people from all over the world are known to come to America to have surgery"

The ignorance of this mantra never ceases to amaze me.

People from all over the world travel to individual specialists all over the world for treatments - the notion that the US has some sort of monopoly on that is beyond ludicrous.

What is funny is that people from all over the world are known to come to America to have surgery or state of the art health care that is unavailable in their "universal" world... Anyone with lots of CASH that is.

As a disabled person, I will again say, that I want nothing to do with universal healthcare.

When I was legally bound to change from regular health insurance to medicare with a rider (PPO, drug coverage, etc), I found that ALL of the doctors that I was seeing and making progress with did not take medicare based programs. PERIOD.

Yesterday I was at one of my doctor's and we were discussing how my quality of life has gotten so much worse in the last few years, and progressively at that, I asked if he knew of a good doctor that I could see.

With much sympathy, he said, "You have medicare and most of my colleagues won't see a patient with your insurance. I don't know of anyone to recommend." -- This was Wednesday

And I have PPO type of care. Now the Universal Health care will remove the PPO care that I have and downgrade it to only Medicare. Yeah assisted suicide might be what the disabled, handicapped and elderly opt for because medical care will be so poor and quality of life won't be worth living.

I cannot begin to describe the quality of life change that I have had from going off regular private insurance to going onto Medicare. I don't get the same doctors, the same treatments, the same medicine. And some days I wonder if life is even worth getting up for.

Great post, solid source, permanently newsworthy. The US medical industry has failed to align the incentives of the patients, nurses, doctors, administrators, insurers, and insurance buyers. Poor management practices and questionable ethics at all levels kill more Americans each year than most genocides.

thats kinda old aint it?

Social Security will not payout well if everyone lived to be 100. someones gotta go

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One reason some in the U.S. have so much reluctance to accept a government health care system is that people who are ill are still looked upon as being moral failures. In the 1600s and 1700s, illness was looked upon as being a result of an attack by Satan, and some churches encouraged this idea with doctrines that said only a few souls, elected by God, were worthy of salvation.

The idea of illness as a moral failure is encouraged in our time by the advertising of products which guarantee good health and attractiveness. Those who are sick have only themselves to blame, if one believes the public relations drivel produced to sell everything from hand cream to sexual stimulants.

This atavistic undercurrent props up a decrepit, inept, unfair, and unbelievably expensive system which provides very little health care and tons of misery.

Bunch of Commies States they can't even afford to die....

Ever heard of nosocomial infection? It's the preventable transmission of bacteria and virus' within a healthcare setting. This represents over 200,000 deaths a year in the US and could be prevented by the staff simply taking the time to sanitize their hands.

Do the insurance companies care about the deaths or the expense of caring for patients who eventually survive and leave the hospital. No... because the hospitals pay for 90% of the expense and what is a dead patient? A patient you don't have to spend any money on. It's sick.

Bet they will get richer too , if we let them .

just look at how the medical loss ratio of the major health insurance companies has decreased over the past decade. so not only are people dying from illnesses that could be prevented, but a small group of executives are getting rich by skimming more and more money from their clients premiums... its despicable