Re: Study: Americans sicker than English

On Mon, 08 May 2006 15:53:08 GMT, Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 08 May 2006 14:41:36 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


You show no interest in checking out anything about the 40
million uninsured in the USA, or in substandard service for those
unable to pay in the USA, or in falsification (for coverup of
errors that kill people or for price gouging) or anything like that.
You only want stuff that claims "Free enterprise is best for
everything, including services essential for life and floor-level
quality of life." That's OK for you and me, who have Kaiser and
dental coverage, but not OK for others about whom you don't
give a damn. Let 'em rot if they can't pay the free-enterprise
or crypto-free-enterprise rate.

What do you Kaiser members in the Bay area think about Kaiser's
abandonment of its kidney transplant patients?



That's a glitch, and needs to be taken care of. If it had
happened in England, of course, El Castor would be all over
it with some of his "Ain't it awful" articles.



The LA Times has
been running stories about how Kaiser in that area pulled out of
seinding those needing transplants to area hospitals with established
programs and good records and started its own -- but has failed to
do more than a fraction of the needed transplants and has left
many without recourse? It is not a pretty picture, and frankly I
think one of Kaiser's big flaws is wanting to do everything with its
proprietory doctors, which in effect it owns and controls, rather than
do as many other HMO s do and allow members choices of doctors
and hospitals. That is one of the reasons I chose a Medicare HMO
other than Kaiser when I moved to California. My son had advised
me that Kaiser here does not have on staff specialists in some areas
of medicine and that he knows of people needing a specialty who
have had to struggle to get referred out of the group. In my HMO
if I am not happy with a doctor, I can easily change. And my doctors
don't take direction from the HMO.



If you're happy with your HMO, that's good. They all have their
problems. I'm kind of OK with Kaiser myself, though I do remember
when I waited three or four hours unattended with a broken arm
because it was about noon and they had a "staff change". We
all want perfection in medicine when it comes to ourselves, but
there's no more perfection in that field than anywhere else - it's
just that the consequences of imperfection are so much more dire.
And of course, cost/benefit is a consideration, even in medicine,
and the costs are my premium costs. I'm not Bill Gates, so the sky
is not the limit.


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