American medicine, is indeed very good, especially the high tech end of it. To answer your question I would go for risky procedures in the USA rather than in any other country. Said that, when we shift to health care system, the picture changes. There are 45.000.000 Americans without insurance ( all Cubans, Canadians, French, Italian, Swedish, etc, etc are covered). Americans with pre-existing conditions can´t buy insurance and can´t change jobs. And frequently treatments are denyed in the name of profit. I agree that Americans as a rule don´t get too much information from other countries and they don´t realize that a health care system can be much better than what they have. And... they are brainshed to believe that private is always better... Many have to sell their homes in order to get care.
Marcio -----Original Message----- >From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Sep 7, 2009 9:53 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Intensive care unit > >2009/9/7 Jeff Morris <[email protected]>: > >> For you to say that the health care in Cuba is better than the United States >> may be the dumbest statement I have ever heard. > > Thank you for the compliment. > > >> Given the choice...you mean to tell me that you would fly to Cuba to have >> open heart surgery instead of having it done by a specialist here? > > What? I am free now to travel to Cuba? Who do I thank for that? Obama? > > >> You answered no...I'm certain...which means then, that health care is NOT >> better in Cuba. > > I said that health care, OVERALL, not in regard to some highly >specialized areas, is better in Cuba. Any reputable statistical >analysis you can find will say the same. The list's resident MD says >so as well. > > >> You are free to move to Cuba, collect your $3 a month wage and enjoy that >> health care. > > Travel restrictions have been lifted? > > >> Do not confuse health care costs with health care. There is a world of >> difference between the two. Socializing our health care system will not >> only hurt our economy...but it will ruin medicine in the United States. > > How do you know that? Did Rush tell you? Glenn Beck? Michelle Bachman? > > >> You can do some things to fix the cost...without changing the entire system. > > Who wants to change the entire system? > > >> 85% of the population is perfectly happy with their health care. > > They may be happy with their health care, but they are not happy >with the cost or the aggravation. Also, and in reality, what do U.S. >citizens really know about health care elsewhere? Isn't it almost >purely anecdotal, or derived from corporate hype? I seem to >understand that Americans, as a whole, actually understand almost >nothing about the rest of the world. With that in mind, why is it >assumed that we know so much about health care in other countries as >to be able to so easily to come to the conclusion that ours is so >great? > > Steve > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
