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Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by 24gttghh » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #93

white-flame wrote: post #90

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I think the fundamental personal issue in this country is that nobody wants to be told exactly what their government-mandated health regimen should be, or have the government decide which procedures they'll be allowed to have for their condition. That ultimately means that they're locked into what their insurance company mandated health regimen should be. But at least they can sort of choose their insurer, or no insu…

When the government is responsible for your healthcare, and also has a fiduciary duty to it's taxpayers, then the government has a further responsibility to restrict what you can eat, drink and do (not just safe or unsafe, but to penalize snack foods and restrict sports that have a higher risk of injury.) All of a sudden, my choice to say, engage in martial arts or boxing, goes from a personal decision (Do I want to…

Please provide an example of a country with socialized/universal healthcare that prevents one from performing martial arts.

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by slg » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

spamizbad wrote: post #96

um_ya wrote: post #94

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The biggest expense to doctors is the cost of getting sued all the time and the insurance doctors need to cover that.

Costs associated with medical malpractice account for just 2.4% of healthcare spending in the United States. Source: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/medical-liabili...

That isn't addressing um_ya's point because doctors are just a part of the overall healthcare industry but bear the brunt of the malpractice costs. This is just one small piece of a broken healthcare system, but how we handle malpractice in this country is certainly broken. Fixing it wouldn't resolve all our problems, but it would definitely help.

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by 24gttghh » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 7:55 PM UTC

dmfdmf wrote: post #88

s73v3r_ wrote: post #79

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Except that's not true. Our government could very, very, very easily enact single payer, and we have plenty enough wealth to do it.

>...and we have plenty enough wealth to do it. Whose wealth?

Yours (if you are a US citizen), mine, the 1%, the other 99%...at least a government mandated reform of the private healthcare system should be able to enforce transparent pricing structures and fight graft.

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by 67_45 » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 7:55 PM UTC

This video does not follow guidelines. I have been coming to hackernews for 6 years and I have never seen a bubble-gum pop YouTuber appear so close to the front page. Why was the Jake Paul apology video not posted? It has the same substance, ie it's emotional content that doesn't follow guidelines.

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by Reedx » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 7:56 PM UTC

bootloop wrote: post #54

So this country doesn't make enough money to be able to keep some unlucky people alive without throwing them or their family into poverty? Or is it simply that nobody cares for anybody else as long as you are better off then them?

A lot of people have a lack of imagination and empathy. It's not a problem until it happens to them.

If everyone really internalized that it could just as easily happen to them, I bet things would change pretty quick.

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by mgkimsal » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

heeeman wrote: post #99

germanier wrote: post #85

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I'm member of a German public health fund (for political reasons, I could instead opt for cheaper private health insurance which many people argue is better, this option is not even available to most of the population). Last year, I went directly to a specialist for a non-urgent reason (two weeks between my call and the appointment) who recommend surgery which was scheduled in a top university hospital about four wee…

> Only thing I paid? The taxi ride home. For anything else there was my insurance card. Oh, so you don't pay for your insurance card? Nice deal! Because I also have public health insurance in Germany, and last time I checked, it cost 14% of my gross salary.

and if you're unemployed (or unemployable) do you lose the ability to use the insurance? does it get cancelled if you don't pay?

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by dmfdmf » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

24gttghh wrote: post #103

dmfdmf wrote: post #88

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>...and we have plenty enough wealth to do it. Whose wealth?

Yours (if you are a US citizen), mine, the 1%, the other 99%...at least a government mandated reform of the private healthcare system should be able to enforce transparent pricing structures and fight graft.

So everyone's wealth is free for the taking?

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by DanBC » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:05 PM UTC

dmfdmf wrote: post #107

24gttghh wrote: post #103

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Yours (if you are a US citizen), mine, the 1%, the other 99%...at least a government mandated reform of the private healthcare system should be able to enforce transparent pricing structures and fight graft.

So everyone's wealth is free for the taking?

Everyone's wealth is already being taken, but spent in fucking weird ways.

The US government pays more for healthcare than some other western countries, but gets worse outcomes across a range of measures.

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by thrillgore » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:16 PM UTC

dmfdmf wrote: post #107

24gttghh wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yours (if you are a US citizen), mine, the 1%, the other 99%...at least a government mandated reform of the private healthcare system should be able to enforce transparent pricing structures and fight graft.

So everyone's wealth is free for the taking?

My wealth is already being used to fight insurgents in parts of the world we have zero business being in.

Re: Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

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Post by buckminster » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:20 PM UTC

ryanmercer wrote: post #7

mosselman wrote: post #6

Yikes, what a bill. My mother had brain surgery a few years ago and didn’t have to pay for anything besides the insurance she always pay for which amounts to a few hundred euros a year.

>Yikes, what a bill. Yeah, cancer-related bills can add up fast. Worse, they'll send you bills for years after the fact... my father had been dead almost a decade from his cancer and the occasional bill would still come and my mom would have to spend hours arguing with them on the phone "uh yeah, he's dead, he's been dead, this happened a decade ago, get your shit together" and they'd usually be all 'oops our bad' al…

In the UK there's a time limit of six years on starting any kind of civil action. If a business discovers they forgot to invoice someone ten years ago they have to write it off.