Re: US health care system
From: Bernard Cristalli (bcrist@club-internet.fr)
Sun Mar 11 03:37:29 2007
The WHO has rated french medical system as the best in the world in the
past 2 or 3 years.
Well, it wasn't that bad for the patients, but rather bad for the
doctors. Very few doctors' children want to be doctors themselves, and
this is a major sign.
In public hospitals (except university ones) 3/4 of the positions are
taken by foreign doctors, most of the times their diplomas wouldn't
allow them to practice "in town" because there not good enough or not
controlled.
Let's not forget the WHO rates a basic level, not the best possible.
Bernard
Melissa a écrit :
> What is the public (? Medicaid) system like? How much does private
> insurance cost and does it fully cover the cost of hospitalization?
>
> In Oz, the public system is quite good (and free). Private insurance
> (single) can cost around $AU800 - $1,600 pa. Then you pay an excess of $200
> - $1000 her hospitalization.
>
> Melissa.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Dr
> Eberhard Lisse
> Sent: Sunday 11 March 2007 20:57
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Subject: Re: Was Bilateral dermoids Now EL's view of US health care system
>
> Dan,
>
> on 3/10/07 8:53 PM R. Daniel Braun said the following:
>
>>> Infant mortality, maternal mortality, teenage pregnancies are neither on
>>> the top in absolute figures, nor in relative figures, taking expenditure
>>> into account. Access to health care? Disposable income by Ob&Gyns?
>>>
>
>> Infant Mortality: Great measure of how well parents can take care of an
>> infant once it goes home. Not worth a hoot at measuring quality of
>> Medical care. BTW, when measured on a bitrht weight to birth weight
>> basis, the US perinatal mortality is quite a bit better than anyone
>> else's. The overall problem is the incidence of preterm delivery. This
>> seems to be a socio-religious problem, since it seems to arise from
>> teenage and otherwise unwanted prgnancies.
>>
>
> If I applied myself hard enough I could probably find a statistical
> figure where Namibia shines. However, I stand by my statement. In
> particular since I haven't found nowhere that only the affluent and
> educated are allowed to have children.
>
> Never mind that I seem to have mentioned teenage pregnancies :-)-O
>
>> Maternal Mortality: I didn't know that 8/100,000 pregnancies was so
>> bad. especially when all deaths of pregnant women and women who have
>> been pregnant in the last year are included in that number.
>> Teen age pregnancies are a social religious problem and have little if
>> anything to do with medical care.
>>
>
> I didn't say it was so bad, *HE* said the US health (and implied the OB)
> system was the best in the world. And that just ain't so. We have been
> over the figures, before. 8/100000 is shocking, in fact.
>
>> Taking expenditure into account: you got me there. The amount of waste
>> in our system is way up there. e.g.: Pre-eclamptic labs ( alll you need
>> to R/O HELLP syndrome is a platelet count and you are going to get one
>> anyway so that anesthesia will consent to putting in an epidural What do
>> most folks get? Complete liver panel that's what.) Waste Waste
>>
>
> There you go
>
>> Access to Health Care: If you don't care about going bankrupt, you can
>> get health care.
>>
>
> Actually that's true but irrelevant.
>
>> Disposable income by OB-GYN's: I don't know about anyone else, but I am
>> comfortable and happy. Far from being rich, but comfortable.
>>
>
> Yes, sure, but why did you wrote the other day you left to become a CMT?
> :-)-O
>
> greetings, el
>
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