World Focus is showing this week a series of reports on how health care is managed in other nations.
Did you know that the US spends 17% of its GDP on health care while Singapore, a country with a higher life expectancy, spends only 4%? Here's a glimpse to the pros and cons of their health care system:
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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The healthcare in the US is great, if you have money that is. We can have some of the best doctors in the world but our healthcare system is so screwed up because of how much healthcare costs! Not only that, doctors and surgeons have to worry so much about malpractice or getting sued for some type of failure, which happens no matter what. If you have ever watched any medical show, such as Scrubs, House, Grey's Anatomy, etc... you can see many times how they try to help out patients but cannot due to no coverage or a surgery being dubbed as "too risky" because they might get sued if something goes wrong. Insurance companies are also trying to dictate the treatment that patients receive because of what they cover. I have heard so many doctors talk about this as being their #1 dislike of any problem with the job is that insurance companies think they know what's best for the patient. They will only cover surgery A, but the patient needs surgery B. The patient needs medicine C, but insurance only covers medicine D, etc... It is not the hospitals that are responsible for all these "negative" statistics, it is the insurance companies that think they know what the right medical decision is, when of course, they think the doctor doesn't know how to do their job.
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