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    Why does socialized medicine suck again?

    I just had non-essential surgery in my chest (a procedure which took around 2 hours of operating) and it left me with a bill of around 15 USD... lol
    So tell me, why does socialized medicine suck again? This procedure would've cost around 6000 dollars if I had funded it privately....

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    It doesn't. Only the American right believes otherwise.

    edit - To be clear, I'm American, this isn't supposed to be nation bashing at all. I'm actually quite amenable to market solutions to healthcare problems, but recognize that socializing systems works just fine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spectral View Post
    It doesn't. Only the American right believes otherwise.
    And that about wraps up this discussion.

    Though I'm sure conservatards are gonna start blabbing all over this thread about how socialism doesn't work, despite mountains of empirical data that says otherwise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aftonflickan View Post
    I just had non-essential surgery in my chest (a procedure which took around 2 hours of operating) and it left me with a bill of around 15 USD... lol
    So tell me, why does socialized medicine suck again? This procedure would've cost around 6000 dollars if I had funded it privately....
    Someone had to pay for it.. Free stuff is only awesome for the one getting it. Isn't it obvious that those who had to paid for it complain and don't want it..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spectral View Post
    It doesn't. Only the American right believes otherwise.
    ^^

    And once the greater American GOP populace realizes that their GOP politicians who are telling them they should be against socialized medicine/healthcare are on socialized medicine/healthcare themselves... they might just wonder... Not to mention the politicians' healthcare is all paid for from citizens' tax dollars. WHICH I would have no problem with, if we had the same kind of healthcare as well. Hypocrites, all of them.
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    Because some people are almost religiously terrified of the word "socialized."
    Get a grip man! It's CHEESE!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aftonflickan View Post
    I just had non-essential surgery in my chest (a procedure which took around 2 hours of operating) and it left me with a bill of around 15 USD... lol
    So tell me, why does socialized medicine suck again? This procedure would've cost around 6000 dollars if I had funded it privately....
    The idea of socialized medicine isn't exactly a bad idea, nor are some implementations of it. However, not ALL forms will work. Working in the medical field I can already start to see some of the potential downsides.

    For instance, clinics can limit the number of patients seen with a certain insurance type (like Medicaid aka State Insurances), or they can outright refuse to accept certain forms of insurance. Clinics can also demand payment before you are seen by a physician. For everyone else who's left out in the cold, they then need to use hospitals, more specifically, Emergency Departments as a primary clinic. This happens in the ER I work at, and has been for a number of years. Everyone is required to be seen by a physician in the ER because of EMTALA. So, we'll see true emergencies (heart attack, stroke, etc) along with things that could be taken care of through the clinic, like sore throat, most forms of abdominal pain, vomiting. State funded insurances typically pay pennies on the dollar for services, so hospitals are then left with the rest of the cost. The more this happens, the more the hospital loses in funds, which has side effects. Hospitals may not be able to afford the best equipment available to help patients, they may need to lay off, they may lose their ability to forgive certain amounts of debt for patients who make too much to get on state funded insurance, but cannot afford insurance on their own, and worst case scenarios of hospitals having to close. The hospital I work in is currently running in the red because of how much we wind up having to write off. It's pretty scary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaneth View Post
    The idea of socialized medicine isn't exactly a bad idea, nor are some implementations of it. However, not ALL forms will work. Working in the medical field I can already start to see some of the potential downsides.

    For instance, clinics can limit the number of patients seen with a certain insurance type (like Medicaid aka State Insurances), or they can outright refuse to accept certain forms of insurance. Clinics can also demand payment before you are seen by a physician.
    Except that wouldnt happen in a Single Payer System. There would be only 1 insurer...the government. If a hospital or clinic decided not to accept that insurance "Assuming they would even be allowed to, they would likely legally have to", then they would have no customers and would go out of business.

    The main advantage of a Single Payer System is leverage.
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    Socialized medicine doesn't suck.

    However, for some unknown reason, the idiots on booth sides think the US is getting socialized medicine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hastings95 View Post
    It doesn't, and would be beneficial if the U.S. were to adopt a good socialized medicine program. Being the country that spends the most on healthcare, yet has one of the worst healthcare systems is pretty shitty.

    Somethings just do not belong in private enterprise hands, especially when it comes to health and well-being.
    Ya like the production of our food, oh wait thats already been privatized and we have no control over it whats so ever

    There is so much processed junk these days, im thinking about going freaking vegetarian

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hastings95 View Post
    Being the country that spends the most on healthcare, yet has one of the worst healthcare systems is pretty shitty.
    I do not concur with the assertion that the United States has one of the worst healthcare systems. It's the least cost effective among modernized countries and has some significant downsides, but it handles some problems very, very well. Rankings systems that reward points for equality of care across a populace deliberately punish the American system; they're not a valid way of look at optimal outcomes. With disparities in longevity being narrow and having at least as much to do with demographics as care, I'm skeptical of claims that rest on average ages.

    This isn't an argument that our system is well designed - it's a fucking abomination of epic proportions. The actual outcomes are good for the vast majority of people though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by killerlee View Post
    Ya like the production of our food, oh wait thats already been privatized and we have no control over it whats so ever

    There is so much processed junk these days, im thinking about going freaking vegetarian
    I'm not sure what an aversion to processed food has to do with vegetarianism. You can buy freshly butchered meats quite easily if you're so inclined.

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    Socialized medicine works just fine. "But someone had to pay for that $6000 surgery!" Bullshit, that didn't cost $6000. It only costs that much here because prices on everything are artificially inflated. Scorpion anti-venom that costs a more than 50k here was produced for only a few thousand bucks.

    In Taiwan they have national healthcare, and while it does have some funding issues, it's not like the sky is falling. While on my month long vacation, I received care that was just as good as what we have in the U.S., and even without insurance it cost me a fraction of what it does here.
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    socialized medicine is great, but has been made 'evil' by people who like to cry out big words they don't understand.
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    Clearly our system doesn't work since the US spends so much per citizen but is the least healthy nation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aftonflickan View Post
    I just had non-essential surgery in my chest (a procedure which took around 2 hours of operating) and it left me with a bill of around 15 USD... lol
    So tell me, why does socialized medicine suck again? This procedure would've cost around 6000 dollars if I had funded it privately....
    Probably has something to do with the fucking 9 month wait time for a hernia operation. Its fucking out-patient surgery. Just ask my step dad about that shit.

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      socialized medicine is great, but has been made 'evil' by people who like to cry out big words they don't understand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by teh piemore View Post
    Probably has something to do with the fucking 9 month wait time for a hernia operation.
    "I heard somewhere people wait a year for surgery, it must be true!"

    Except it's not. Anecdotal evidence is worthless for a reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Varabently View Post
    Clearly our system doesn't work since the US spends so much per citizen but is the least healthy nation.
    I think this has quite a bit more to do with our obesity demographics than our healthcare system. It's also worth noting that we have high rates of death from non-natural causes relative to other first world countries, particularly auto deaths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aftonflickan View Post
    I just had non-essential surgery in my chest (a procedure which took around 2 hours of operating) and it left me with a bill of around 15 USD... lol
    So tell me, why does socialized medicine suck again? This procedure would've cost around 6000 dollars if I had funded it privately....
    It's based in the american peoples reluctance to pay taxes. Both socialized and private healthcare are good to have. Private is probably for those that can afford it, as it might give you aid faster and lets you have your own doctor, not 15 different ones. That's the case here in Sweden anyway. The only problem we have is how understaffed non-private healthcare is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dantian View Post
    "I heard somewhere people wait a year for surgery, it must be true!"

    Except it's not. Anecdotal evidence is worthless for a reason.
    Indeed, the actual data I've seen suggests that Canadians typically have shorter wait times for non-elective procedures than Americans (to use one example).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noomz View Post
    It's based in the american peoples reluctance to pay taxes. Both socialized and private healthcare are good to have. Private is probably for those that can afford it, as it might give you aid faster and lets you have your own doctor, not 15 different ones. That's the case here in Sweden anyway. The only problem we have is how understaffed non-private healthcare is.
    You guys have a combined system that covers basic healthcare but provides better options if you can afford it, yeah? That's always seemed like the best of all worlds to me.

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