Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi...
by flashback2199 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:28PM
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A lot of people in the UK have supplementary health insurance. My not-very-well-informed impression of NHS itself is that it's alright and that being able to use private health insurance as a kind of backup or escape hatch generally works well for people. I do think that having a public system and a private system in parallel that are aiming for different goals is perhaps a bit more effective in the end than forcing 1 system to meet everybody's needs. If you force 1 system to be the only system, then some are necessarily going to be better off and others are going to be worse off, it's unavoidable. As software developers we are familiar with this concept; I'm imagining if every web app were forced to use the same frontend framework. The problem is how this could be done now that health care is a huge percentage of the nation's economy. How can nationalizing a large percentage of that industry be accomplished without significant harms in the process. The UK created NHS at a much more opportune time when marginal costs in health care were significantly lower due to mass production of health services for World War II.
Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi...
by ethanbond on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:18PM
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Wow, the last few years are a shocking drop. In 2010, 70% reported "very or quite satisfied" and 18% "very or quite dissatisfied." 2010 - 2020 seemed to hover around 60-65% "very satisfied."
Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi...
by rqtwteye on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @10:38PM
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The conservatives are actively trying to destroy it.
Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi...
by AvocadoPanic on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:16PM
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Unless you're reading news items about no ambulances or beds, being left on trollies in corridors, waiting lists for procedures lack of available GP appointments. Before covid not as a result.
Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi...
by smileysteve on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:21PM
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Just anecdotally, all of these things happened to multiple family members last year, in the US, in a major metro area.
It was sad when we had to use personal connections to get grandma a meal and room after 12 hours in the corridor.
Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi...
by rqtwteye on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @10:39PM
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I have experience in Germany and the US. I don’t think there is much difference in these aspects. As far as GP appointments go, here in new Mexico the wait time is measured in months and years.
Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi...
by explaininjs on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:11PM
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I see sentiments like this echoed quite a lot regarding the NHS, similar for Canada's: https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/upoamh/th...
Of course everyone would prefer if everything were better all the time, but complaints about the US system and clearly not on the same plane as those about UK’s.