This is when you know reform is needed:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

The Economist praises the Swedish health care system over the American on issues of incentives.

Article linked here:

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899647

Also....an image worth keeping in mind for defenders of the broken system:



Now, there's something wrong with this picture. See if you can tell me what it is.....

X-posted from my own LJ.

Comments

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

that a ton of people get in ER

also did you notice how little medicaid pays for regular check-up, anyone can afford that, they just need to explain to doc their situation

PS: In Philly there are free clinics as well.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

none of that is comprehensive, and you can't just walk into an ER and say "I'd like a yearly checkup". No, you cannot.

And you, the tax payer, and I the tax payer, pay for it anyway.

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

you say: I cough - you get a checkup (usually after the people with more serious conditions are taken care of, but they cannot throw you out).

Still the care is there.

Yes, and I blame my government for legislating in a way that the costs to the taxpayers have exploded without little real benefit to taxpayers.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

If your life is not in distress, actually they dont have to treat every cough and sneeze.

A hospital is only responsible for stabalizing you, and giving a cursory exam (as in basic of basic to ensure you're not in distress) to ensure they weren't negligent -- not for *having* to treat every cough and sneeze.