" Alternatively a single payer system like Canada's makes the prisoner's dilemma not relevant here. It can come from the general tax base or require people to pay premiums and copays. the current system is so wasteful. Consider this, the largest hospital in Ontario has a 3 person office to handle insurance claims. A 2 doctor practice has at least double that. "
Maybe the 2 doctor practice has so much more paperwork and red tape to jump through for reimbursements that it has to employ more people. Hmmm, if so why would that be? Anyway, Dr Smith has some interesting things to say about the Canadian health care system. Here's a link: http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/tagged/Canadian-health-care I like his link to this article: Doctors at several Canadian hospitals routinely accepted bribes from patients to expedite surgeries in publicly funded health care One of the major pitfalls of government-run universal health care is long waiting lists for patients who require involved procedures, a situation that often devolves into a "black market" of medical care where patients willing and able to fork over large cash sums are able to move to the front of the line for medical procedures. And this is precisely what has been taking place in Montreal, Canada, where doctors have allegedly been charging patients thousands of dollars in secret fees in order for them to gain priority in receiving medical care. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035287_surgeons_bribes_hospitals.html#ixzz1rXQIEt2H This is interesting to: Block Grants and Canadian Health Care Block granting certain entitlement programs to the states, namely Medicaid, is a hot topic. The RSC (Republican Study Committee) led by Rep. Jordan has proposed legislation to effect this. As anticipated, the usual suspects are crying foul. You know, the stupid people out in the individual states just simply cant make the right decisions without the experts guiding hand in D.C. Cant leave these ignorant and cruel states to their own devices, you know. But heres a thought. The same crowd that is decrying the block granting of Medicaid, is the same crowd that finds favor with the health care system in Canada. Why does this matter? Well ready?..*.because the Canadian government administers their health care system with block grants to the provinces*. Ouch. This inconsistency is just too delicious to pass up. Theres more. You see, the Canadian government sends the money to the provinces and when its gone, its gone. Thats why they have waiting lists. Here, Uncle Sam responds to requests for money and what they dont send is made up for by the states. All the while, Uncle Sam is telling the states what services they must provide, no matter how much of the difference state revenues must account for. A certain recipe for budget problems at the state level, and something that would be remedied with block grants. Think of a Canadian health card like a pre-paid phone card on a party line. Ever hear your elders talk about the good old days when phones shared a party line, that is, when multiple people shared the same phone line? Thats Canadian health care. You have a pre-paid card, on which millions of others are running up charges, so that at any given time, you dont know whether the card is worth anything or not. It is certainly worth less on Tuesday than the prior Monday! In the U.S., the card has a backup card held by the state governments, the limits of which are being tapped out by the insanity of federal mandates related to Medicaid. http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/post/20238779202/block-grants-and-canadian-health-care J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349639 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
