By: sevan claig

sevan claig — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:08:37 +0000

The 3% of happy Canadian doctors are the ones who stay. The 16% of the US doctors who think their northern neighbor’s socialized system stinks either 1.) left it themselves long ago, or 2.) have known too many peers who have, or 3.) have been frustrated enough with the overwhelming defensive practices forced upon them here to have taken a serious look into Canada’s system and balked at the move, or 4.) are foreign citizens who came to america to train and practice after careful consideration or the other choices- including Canada’s.

By: David Dzidzikashvili

David Dzidzikashvili — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:02:23 +0000

We have seen that the private healthcare does not work well and the government run healthcare system has also failed in many countries that tried it. Private health insurance companies are unfair to sick people – sometimes people get disqualified because they have one of the million sicknesses listed in the pre-approval applications and those companies try to give insurance to healthier individuals because healthy individual = less doctor visits, less medications and less drug coverage = more profits for private health industry.
I think what we need is cooperation between government and private insurance companies. I do not believe it is right to list million health preconditions as a qualification test for applicants and deny them healthcare. This is unfair and barbaric! Can you believe in 20th century America we can disqualify an American citizen from healthcare coverage because 5 years ago they had an emergency doctors visit? That’s where the government should step in and redefine all rules for private healthcare companies. These companies should not be able to easily disqualify families for coverage and if they want to stay in the game they have to actively work with the people, not just push them away.
So the problem is obvious: get rid of health industry lobbyists and drug company lobbyists and start listening to the people, it’s time to start addressing the average people’s needs. Until the lobbyists will have money, power and say, we will have this problem follow us in future as a shadow from dark past.

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