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The Singapore Cure
Weekly Standard, by Matthew Continetti

Original Article

Posted By:Pluperfect, 2/22/2013 5:30:00 AM

David Goldhill is a liberal Democratic business executive whose father was killed by a hospital-borne infection several years ago. The experience drove him to study the American health care system in search of an explanation. “How is it possible,” he writes, “that my father’s death was an avoidable accident with no one to blame?” The answer shocked him. Goldhill discovered that health care is unlike any other industry: Everything about health care—how we pay for it, how we regulate it, how we judge its effectiveness, how we’re willing to accept low standards

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Spidey, 2/22/2013 5:42:17 AM     (No. 9190154)

I´ve known and heard about quite a few people in my local hospital contracting some kind of bug while they´re in there. Whatever it is,it seems to attack the lungs the most.I think it´s some variation of MRSA.

To make it even worse ,if the victim is on medicare,it probably have to pay the costs of the longer stay in the hospital


Reply 2 - Posted by: toodles3956, 2/22/2013 5:49:16 AM     (No. 9190157)

I have to tell this story. About 6 months ago I had some testing done at a hospital other than the one my primary care doctor uses by a Dr. not associated with his group. When I saw my primary Dr. 4 months later I asked if he had received copies of those tests. Nope, he didn´t have them. He asked one of his girls where they were. She said any test results not from their hospital were put in a different place. He wanted to see them but nobody knew where they were. My thoughts were if they were put in the patients chart, everyone would know where they were. Unbelieveable. Also the Dr. that performed the tests never did contact me so after 3 months I asked for the results to be sent to me. Well, the girl said on the phone, she was sure the Dr. would want to do some more tests. I told her to do them on someone else, I was done. This is normal in my area. Ohio and PA.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: nonsense, 2/22/2013 7:54:24 AM     (No. 9190285)

Of course O. care is "old fashioned". Other than whatshisname (Creamer)´s contribution, the "ideas" have been written by Demonrats over a 60 year period. Most likely post WWII. Successive generations of deranged Demonrats added to the plan, that is why it is over 2,000 pages. I believe Rush is also right on this one, it has been in a drawer for more than a half century and the Demonrats pulled it out when the time was right and were so absorbed in passing it that they did not bother to read it.

Can´t imagine the backlash when coal and oil are completely "killed" and citizens find out that wood stoves are outlawed by the O. care law. In fact, a stove cannot be sold, it must be destroyed. I assume that also means no smoke from a fireplace. Good luck staying warm during N.E. winters once O. care if fully implemented.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Bobn.T, 2/22/2013 9:18:05 AM     (No. 9190464)

I´m wondering when the gub´ment is going to start "caning" to demand conformance to its dictates.

Lord Master, Great Black Face, lead us to your promised land of gloom, despair and agony on end, deep dark depression...


Reply 5 - Posted by: canuckchopper, 2/22/2013 9:55:03 AM     (No. 9190554)

Not mentioned in the article, but relevant is the amount of alternative medicine (like acupuncture, and Chinese Herbal medicine) that´s available in Singapore.
The US lacks a competitive view of medicine to that held by the American Medical Association - competition from alternative medicines would make everyone sharper.



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