Posted by ggb3 on December 30, 2017 at 10:34:32 from (174.126.108.182):
In Reply to: My Health Care Rant posted by John in La on December 30, 2017 at 06:21:33:
Other countries only somewhat re-create our healthcare, cheaper. They typically do not have all of the huge tort awards, cost of resources, environmental, regulations and the host of other things most folks do not even think about that add to the huge cost of doing business in the US.
Say you are an ER physician and a patient presents with a headache. You order lab-work and other tests. Do you order a CT of the head? You do and they have a pinched nerve, you are ordering tests that are not needed nor will you be paid for your time or the several or dozens of people needed for you to have that test or the 1.5 million dollar machine that was used, You are left with ordering unneeded tests to "raise your income and your a greedy SOB". Then of course you have the one patient out of many that come in with a headache, you do not order the CT and they have a brain bleed. They have a stroke/aneurysm the next day and you are being sued and hauled over the review board because you did not order a CT for their head ache. And of course it is because they were poor or had garbage insurance........
CT companies charge about $350-$450 or more per hour for service. An x-ray tube that breaks, or just wears out after a number of studies is $30,000 or $40,000. A tech spilled a coke in a keyboard on a CT machine a number of years ago. The new keyboard was $20,000. Much of the equipment in a hospital is FDA regulated. If you use a part that is the same, you voided that approval and could be facing serious liability issues.
A "regular" computer is in an ultrasound machine. The video card goes out and you can buy one on Amazon all day long for $50. The manufacturer of the FDA regulated equipment wants $5,000. It is not just greed on their side, they had to spend large sums of money and years or a decade getting FDA approval after many highly educated people designed the equipment and they have to build that money into the cost as well as the myriad of other costs that are a part of the US market.
If you use that video card from Amazon and a something happens with a diagnosis or treatment of a patient and you are sued, the attorney finds out and you have a big lottery payout for the attorney and patient, even though it may not have been a factor.
I have jumped around a bit, there is a lot to all of this. The chickens are coming home to roost, actions, regulations all have consequences. Re-publicans and dem-ocrats are two sides of the same coin, all the while the American people ignore politics and go on with their lives, thinking the vain and power hungry that seek office will do the right thing. Most did not and that continues. The fault is multi-generational.
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