Why should the health care industry be a for profit institution?

[Dr. Zhivodka]

Singapore has approximately 100,000 people and the land mass of less than New Hampshire. Very hard to make that comparison.

Quote from MohdSalleh:

they is what they should do, follow the singapore system whereby those who do not have pte health insurance have compulsory savings imposed(taken out of salary every mth) to pay for any medical costs over their lifetime.


"Singapore has a universal healthcare system where government ensures affordability, largely through compulsory savings and price controls, while the private sector provides most care. Overall spending on healthcare amounts to only 3% of annual GDP. Of that, 66% comes from private sources.[1]

Singapore currently has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world (equaled only by Iceland) and among the highest life expectancies from birth, according to the World Health Organization.[2] Singapore has "one of the most successful healthcare systems in the world, in terms of both efficiency in financing and the results achieved in community health outcomes," according to an analysis by global consulting firm Watson Wyatt.[3]

Singapore's system uses a combination of compulsory savings from payroll deductions (funded by both employers and workers) a nationalized catastrophic health insurance plan, and government subsidies, as well as "actively regulating the supply and prices of healthcare services in the country" to keep costs in check; the specific features have been described as potentially a "very difficult system to replicate in many other countries." Many Singaporeans also have supplemental private health insurance (often provided by employers) for services not covered by the government's programs.[3]"

 

[MohdSalleh]

Quote from Dr. Zhivodka:

Singapore has approximately 100,000 people and the land mass of less than New Hampshire. Very hard to make that comparison.

"Singapore's demographics describe a population of 4.48 million, as estimated by the last census in 2005 and is the second most densely populated independent country in the world."

 

[Dr. Zhivodka]

Ok... when the USA goes from 300 million to 4.48 million you let me know? yes?

Quote from MohdSalleh:

"Singapore's demographics describe a population of 4.48 million, as estimated by the last census in 2005 and is the second most densely populated independent country in the world."

 

[Dr. Zhivodka]

Here's all you need to know... Health Care will pass and the republicans will vomit and a matter of course because they care not about their constituent. But they do care about Lobbying money. Who is Jack Abramoff?

 

[Index piker]

Quote from OPTIONAL777:

Corporate profits.

Imagine if the fire department was a for profit corporation. They hear about a fire in an area that is in a very low income area. They decide there isn't enough profit in it for them to put out the fire.

Imagine the police department was a for profit corporation. They hear of a domestic abuse situation in a very low income area. They decide there isn't enough profit in it for them to drive out and look into the problem.

Imagine an insurance company was a for profit corporation. They hear of a low income patient who is covered by their policy who needs a transplant and they decide to delay the authorization of the transplant until the patient dies...because there isn't enough profit in it for them.

I'm a sole proprietor working in the health care industry.

So according to you that's fine as long as I don't incorporate?

 

[omegapoint]

What the market will bear, right? You wanna live, you gotta pay.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

You think the best caregivers go into medicine for the money?

Sheesh...

You must also think hookers give the best blow jobs as well...

Quote from Dr. Zhivodka:

IF Potential Doctors entering into to the field had no profit motive. Then I can't imagine the sclubes by which you might be treated.

 

[MohdSalleh]

Quote from Dr. Zhivodka:

Ok... when the USA goes from 300 million to 4.48 million you let me know? yes?

you know you should really get yourself a passport and travel outside the usa for a holiday, there's an entire world out there you know.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

People who go into human service industries for money are prostitutes...

...err, that would be a scumbag health care provider in it for the money. The primary motive being profit puts the care of the patient secondary...which is not at all what the ideal of medicine are.

The decisions made in business are quite often in direct opposition to the Hippocratic oath...

Have you ever read the Hippocratic oath?

To protect and serve is the underlying ideal for the police force...their motto should be "To make a profit?"

Quote from Index piker:

I'm a sole proprietor working in the health care industry.

So according to you that's fine as long as I don't incorporate?

 

[OPTIONAL777]

One thing you forgot...republicans complained about government health care will take advantage of government health care in droves, even if they can still afford private health care.

Quote from Dr. Zhivodka:

Here's all you need to know... Health Care will pass and the republicans will vomit and a matter of course because they care not about their constituent. But they do care about Lobbying money. Who is Jack Abramoff?