Comments on: An argument for our current health system http://www.medrants.com/archives/1449 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Anderson http://www.medrants.com/archives/1449/comment-page-1#comment-2384 John Anderson Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:29:05 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/09/10/an-argument-for-our-current-health-system/#comment-2384 Waiting lists get ridiculous: *<a HREF="http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/4-9-19103-23-56-19.html">Former Health MP To Wait Almost 2 years for hearing test</a>* A set of tests that in the US might take a week to set up takes 90 weeks? And his hearing will continue to deteriorate without intervention. Waiting lists get ridiculous:
*Former Health MP To Wait Almost 2 years for hearing test*
A set of tests that in the US might take a week to set up takes 90 weeks? And his hearing will continue to deteriorate without intervention.

]]> By: Gross Anatomy http://www.medrants.com/archives/1449/comment-page-1#comment-2385 Gross Anatomy Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:55:49 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/09/10/an-argument-for-our-current-health-system/#comment-2385 <strong>NHS Isn't NHI</strong> As a single-payer advocate, there’s nothing that bunches my panties more than confusion between health care systems. I’ve seen it on StudentDoctor, on MedPundit, and now over at MedRants. If for nothing else, please read this and pass it on... NHS Isn’t NHI
As a single-payer advocate, there’s nothing that bunches my panties more than confusion between health care systems. I’ve seen it on StudentDoctor, on MedPundit, and now over at MedRants. If for nothing else, please read this and pass it on…

]]> By: R.G. Lacsamana http://www.medrants.com/archives/1449/comment-page-1#comment-2383 R.G. Lacsamana Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:57:08 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/09/10/an-argument-for-our-current-health-system/#comment-2383 I can only say, AMEN! It is unfortunate that certain factions in the country, including the prestigious American College of Surgeons, keep agitating for the same model that Great Britan and Canada have. While it is true there is allowance for private medical care in Britain, it covers a tiny segment of the population. An English physican who immigrated here and worked in our hospital as a house physician for two years in the late '60s told us of a typical daily patient load close to 100, sometimes exceeding that. Not to mention those long waiting lists, the decrepit facilities, the aging equipment, the rationing of care, and so on and on and on. The national health service in Great Britain would have collapsed a long time ago if it were not for thousands of physicians from abroad, usually from India and Pakistan, manning the ramparts of that system. That system, of course, has been there since the mid-forties and Britons never know the difference from the one we have here. I agree with DB this study is one more weapon we can use against those who would replace our system with something that has been proven to be a failure. Perhaps even the ACS should now have second thoughts about their stand. I can only say, AMEN!

It is unfortunate that certain factions in the country, including the prestigious American College of Surgeons, keep agitating for the same model that Great Britan and Canada have. While it is true there is allowance for private medical care in Britain, it covers a tiny segment of the population.

An English physican who immigrated here and worked in our hospital as a house physician for two years in the late ’60s
told us of a typical daily patient load close to 100, sometimes exceeding that. Not to mention those long waiting lists, the decrepit facilities, the aging equipment, the rationing of care, and so on and on and on.

The national health service in Great Britain would have collapsed a long time ago if it were not for thousands of physicians from abroad, usually from India and Pakistan, manning the ramparts of that
system. That system, of course, has been there since the mid-forties and Britons never know the difference from the one we have here.

I agree with DB this study is one more weapon we can use against those who would replace our system with something that has been proven to be a failure. Perhaps even the ACS should now have second thoughts about their stand.

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