The decline in healthcare begins

I'm not crying. A hospital in Tokyo charges a fraction of what a typical American hospital charges. Does anyone really think they do a shit job over there?? Hospitals placed on the worlds most expensive real estate (Tokyo) and they still charge a small fraction of what a US hospital charges.

A multi- $ trillion business, 20% of our GDP. A few people are accumulating the wealth of gods.

We are the wealthiest nation with among the poorest health care.

american 'health care' is one of the deadliest forces on earth short of the american corpsgov and its military etc...better off without it...'let them eat cannabis'

Rrog said:

I'm not crying. A hospital in Tokyo charges a fraction of what a typical American hospital charges. Does anyone really think they do a shit job over there?? Hospitals placed on the worlds most expensive real estate (Tokyo) and they still charge a small fraction of what a US hospital charges.

A multi- $ trillion business, 20% of our GDP. A few people are accumulating the wealth of gods.

We are the wealthiest nation with among the poorest health care.

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*Slow clap*

Insurance companies and banks, teaming up with hospitals and big pharma... I'm sure they have our best interests in mind. We are little energizer bunnies generating cash to pay these guys. Nothing more.

And I don't blame Nurses, Techs, Doctors, Dentists. They are forced to work in this perverted industry.

The healthcare itself is great. It's the cost that sucks.

Obamacare is not healthcare reform. It's a make everyone get insurance law.

Antidisestablishmentarian said:

The healthcare itself is great. It's the cost that sucks.

Obamacare is not healthcare reform. It's a make everyone get insurance law.

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It's the unnecessary testing that raises costs. But the hospitals have to pay for those expensive machines some how.

Personally, I'm not talking Obama anything. The healthcare, statistically speaking, is not great at all. We were just booted out of the worlds fattest population by Mexico.

Americans eat 10% fewer calories than a decade ago but... we still are getting fatter.

Americans are exercising a similar 10% more than a decade ago but... we are getting fatter.

We die younger, are statistically much less happy, have an infant mortality rate similar to the Congo.

We have the largest disparity of people without access to healthcare of westernized nations.

This doesn't sound like the best healthcare is workin too swell.

Balzac89 said:

It's the unnecessary testing that raises costs. But the hospitals have to pay for those expensive machines some how.

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They don't test in any other nation on earth? Sure they do. It's not popular to squash a private company's opportunity to make as much profit as possible. Get a few of these lobby-backed industries together and the overall system becomes a staggering goliath that needs to be fed and they have billions available to influence politicians.

Is there anyone here that seriously does NOT think this is happening?

Rrog said:

They don't test in any other nation on earth? Sure they do. It's not popular to squash a private company's opportunity to make as much profit as possible.

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They don't require as much unnecessary testing.

Also the cost of drugs in the U.S. are much higher than anywhere else

Hell yes they are. American company makes an American pill and sell it to an American pharmacy for $100. That same American company sells that same American pill to a pharmacy in Canada for $40.

Oh and by the way, how many pills are you folks on? How many of those pills are "forever" pills. You take them until your final breath. Trillions of dollars for a few gods.

I watched this video and it's pretty interesting what he has to say, give me your opinions, guys and gals.
http://www.upworthy.com/his-first-4-sentences-are-interesting-the-5th-blew-my-mind-and-made-me-a-little-sick-2?c=ufb1

Great short video. A screenshot:


Another:

Antidisestablishmentarian said:

The healthcare itself is great. It's the cost that sucks.

Obamacare is not healthcare reform. It's a make everyone get insurance law.

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this from someone whos initials are DTH...oook

Winter Woman said:

Administrators at the Cleveland Clinic announced on Wednesday that the health care giant would be cutting as much as $300 million from its 2014 budget, and that the cuts will likely include layoffs.
“Health care reform has really changed things, and the burden of cost is going to be falling on patients,” spokeswoman Eileen Shiel told The Plain Dealer. “We want to make sure we can keep care affordable.”
During a regularly scheduled quarterly meeting, Cleveland Clinic President and Chief Executive Dr. Toby Cosgrove told employees about plans to reduce operating expenses by about 6 percent, and cited the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as one of the reasons for the cuts.

Now one of the best in healthcare begins its decline all thanks to Obama.

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This is just more bullshit. When places like these stop charging $20 for an aspirin and $60 for a bag of sterile saline THEN I will be worried for their bottom line and not until. Why would they lay people off when they are already making a huge amount of money? Gee, how much you figure the top people there are bringing in? I believe total short term compensation starts and 1.5 million and packages extend to 9 million. Let's see that go down a bit before we start blaming Obama Care.

In all fairness, folks that have a job, like their job, and have employer paid insurance don't want changes. I can see that. If it ain't broke (for them) don't fix it. But having your spoke working when the larger wheel is unsustainable is not ever going to last. I hope we're seeing the dismantling of this essential slavery.

As a guy who has always had employer insurance and now has to pay out of pocket, I can say that $800 a month for shit coverage keeps most from being able to look at private insurance. Talk about squashing the little business guy...

Rrog said:

Personally, I'm not talking Obama anything. The healthcare, statistically speaking, is not great at all. We were just booted out of the worlds fattest population by... Samoa. Yes folks, Samoa is the only country on the face of this planet that is on average fatter than we are.

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Samoa wasn't included in the latest study, but we did get passed up by Mecico.

I stand corrected. Maybe Samoa was an earlier winner.

There is no profit if people are healthy. That's why doctors put people on meds for stuff that could be fixed with diet and exercise.