IF AIR TRAVEL WORKED LIKE HEALTH CARE
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by admin in News travel
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS–IT’S GOING TO BE A BUMPY FLIGHT.
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by admin in News travel
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS–IT’S GOING TO BE A BUMPY FLIGHT.
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aeon23
01. Feb, 2010
I don’t deal with American health care anymore…I’m on the Japanese National Health Care system now. Yes, it is infinitely better. The most I’ve ever paid is $70 and that’s because I had an MRI. Plus, my medicine was included in the bill…along with the doctor’s consultaion. The dentist is cheaper. I had 2 wisdom teeth pulled for $28 (pain medicine included) So, you right wingers can put that in your pipes and smoke it.
mostliberal
01. Feb, 2010
It already is standard. All doctors go to this website that only doctors can log onto, and share information about each other. I was surprised when one of the specialists I went to kept in touch with one of the surgeons who operated on me in another country on the other side of the world.
rmrmr
01. Feb, 2010
A universal record would make medical black-listing into a standard, encouraged practice. Why is that a good thing?
mostliberal
01. Feb, 2010
Doctor-patient confidentiality doesn’t exist. It’s bullshit. Doctors know each other, and they keep huge social networks of doctors, even outside the country in which they operate. If you become too difficult a patient because of a complex medical problem, or if they think you might sue them, they can tell the other doctors you go to not to treat you, and pretend like they’re still working on it. Its called medical black-listing, look it up.
rachelrachael24
01. Feb, 2010
I am drunk~~! so horny too doh
rmrmr
01. Feb, 2010
That doesn’t mean I want to give even more of my personal information to everyone. You know there’s a reason for doctor-patient confidentiality, right?
mostliberal
01. Feb, 2010
You already have a flight record, academic record, and criminal record being kept. Imagine if all this shit happened every time you had to fly (as shown), get a job (ok, technically you provide your history, but its pointless since its so easy for bosses to find out on their own), and everyone can just buy your criminal history offline. Stop bitching, there’s info out there about us all that’s just as important that can be obtained at the touch of a button.
DecSop1
01. Feb, 2010
I’m even more glad than I usually am that I’m British… Thank God for Beveridge.
ticklebug
01. Feb, 2010
@noraview: Yep. You are talking to a memorized script. That’s a good thing because if these agents talked how they really felt inside, you wouldn’t like what they would have to say.
I used to be one of those airline agents, and should you stray from the rules/script, you get fired. Honestly, we would REALLY love to be more human in front of customers.
chishi1
01. Feb, 2010
The lack of single unifying system that can exchange data is due to the HIPAA law and interpretation. This was originally designed to try to assure that any (electronic) data would not or could not be accessed by other than authorized personnel – and authorized by you. The interpretations of the regulations has made it even more difficult to exchange information.
This skit only covers one aspect of the disjointed medical care delivery system.
chishi1
01. Feb, 2010
The Hospital is only a “facility” or location fee.
YOu forgot the separate radiologist reading fee for your ultrasound.
The ultrasound and labs are “procedures.”
The advantage of being in the Emergency Department as opposed to in your prmary care office, or an independent walk-in clinic is that the referral/consultation occurred at that time, on site.
tncanoeguy
01. Feb, 2010
So true. I had a trip to the emergency room recently and received 5 bills:
Hospital
Attending physician (didn’t do Jack)
Specialist (did most of the work)
Ultrasound tech
Lab fee
Don’t know why the ultrasound tech and lab fee were separate from the hospital charge.
rmrmr
01. Feb, 2010
I know all of my pertinent medical information. I don’t need a universal record and I don’t want doctors to be able to share information I don’t want them to share.
laydydee
01. Feb, 2010
@rmrmr…A record is kept on you everytime you visit the doctor or hospital. It is called your medical record/file. The problem today is that information is siloed. So if for whatever reason you had to go to a different provider that is not associated with your current provider you will have to fill out forms again with your medical history etc. All the stuff is redundant and you might forget some pertinent information when filling out the forms again. So now there are diff med rec of you.
rmrmr
01. Feb, 2010
They keep records but as is said in the video they are not well coordinated so they can’t really affect things. What I should say is I don’t want a central health record.
rmrmr
01. Feb, 2010
I think healthcare needs to be reformed but I don’t want a record being kept on me. No way.
teleutube
01. Feb, 2010
Health care system IS ALREADY WORKING LIKE AIR TRAVEL…. airlines dropping everyday flights like flies…due to travellers’ pre-existing conditions…
Ten of thousands travellers dropped from airplanes every year, WITHOUT ANY PARACHUTES !
GOOD LUCK ON THE WAY DOWN….for other travellers’ safety sake.
kirkuscircus
01. Feb, 2010
are they in different parts of the country or something? I mean, it’s daytime where she is at and it’s obviously night for him!
Fetishmale
01. Feb, 2010
I love and support amrikanere, but I`m very glad that I live in Denmark or any other civilized country, when I become sick or injured.
InteractiveViewer333
01. Feb, 2010
…the themes here are also common to the school systems BTW. And don’t think ‘hey, that’s socialized!’ SOME things are socialized about it, like money, much of the way the school conducts schoolings is all independent; anyone ever heard of an independent school district? It has that name for a reason. We pay hundreds dollars for sets of books created by professional organizations who research how to help kids learn, then barely use them (each district would rather try a new experiment each yr
glorpy2
01. Feb, 2010
@InteractiveViewer333: Huh? Nobody (of importance) has proposed abolishing copyright privileges, which is all “public domain” is about.
Your comment seems off-topic.
glorpy2
01. Feb, 2010
You forgot the part where the airline doesn’t actually give you the price ahead of time, but waits a couple months to bill you as it churns through a horrifically slow insurance reimbursement system (even if you don’t have insurance, naturally).
Yes the market is competitive, but it is only competitive for insurance companies. The US healthcare system is structured to benefit insurance providers, not healthcare providers or consumers.
InteractiveViewer333
01. Feb, 2010
There is also no reason everything has to be a part of the public domains…we’ll need to talk to the government again about that one (there really is a way to have responsible AND minimal internet regulation).
glorpy2
02. Feb, 2010
Erm, so you also don’t use telecommunications, banking, transport, security, education, retail or manufacturing providers? Because they all rely on the Internet for securely relaying their important internal information.
d03boy
02. Feb, 2010
The internet is quite safe using some very simple levels of security. Really.