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05-04-2020, 09:07 AM #16601
Well I first read about it in the book “The Healing of America”. My take was that their system was like the ACA in the US but with more substance. The private insurance industry is highly regulated, most people have insurance and are required to have it. If you’re unemployed or need assistance with premiums the government will subsidize your insurance premiums. They have a better and more comprehensive EMR that’s the same for the entire country, it’s called “the Card Vitale” and it also streamlines billing and reimbursement. So while their healthcare system is more highly regulated and subsidized, most of the delivery is handled by private companies.
Our Medicare and state Medicaid systems are the largest socialized medicine programs in the world.
That’s where I’m coming from, maybe things have changed since that book was published.
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05-04-2020, 09:19 AM #16602Banned
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05-04-2020, 09:41 AM #16603
The Trump administration projects about 3,000 daily deaths by early June.
As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double from the current level of about 1,750.
The projections, based on modeling by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/u...#link-7b42d0f5
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05-04-2020, 09:44 AM #16604Banned
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SO much winning.
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05-04-2020, 09:52 AM #16605
I'll ruin the surprise. It's both good and bad.
Here's the bad:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/04/...pandemic-epic/
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05-04-2020, 09:58 AM #16606Banned
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Costco does a better job taking care of their employees than most (maybe any) retail store
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reaso...stco_n_4275774Last edited by Deebased; 05-04-2020 at 02:10 PM.
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05-04-2020, 10:02 AM #16607
Good for me though. What's the bad news?
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-04-2020, 10:09 AM #16608Registered User
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05-04-2020, 10:16 AM #16609
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05-04-2020, 10:20 AM #16610
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05-04-2020, 10:26 AM #16611Registered User
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we're all gonna die
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05-04-2020, 10:36 AM #16612
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05-04-2020, 10:42 AM #16613
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05-04-2020, 10:45 AM #16614
You're right--the term failed state doesn't apply. That's for places that don't have a functioning govt--places like Somalia, run by warlords. Venezuela might qualify. The covid might increase the roster.
The govt we deserve--yeah, probably. Although most of us did vote for her.
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05-04-2020, 10:49 AM #16615
Most of us didn't vote at all.
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05-04-2020, 10:50 AM #16616Registered User
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05-04-2020, 10:52 AM #16617
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05-04-2020, 10:55 AM #16618
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05-04-2020, 10:59 AM #16619
Meanwhile Trump said last night that the death count will be 75k-100k. Sheeeit, we'll be over 100k before Memorial Day. No way there will be less than 250k dead by Dec. 31 and 300k-500k by then seems plausible.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN22G1T3
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05-04-2020, 11:00 AM #16620
'It's just the flu.'
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05-04-2020, 11:01 AM #16621
Well, yeah, but, as I said, wouldn't it be interesting if cancer deaths only went up a little over the next few years, even if screenings, and therefore, treatment resulting from screenings dropped dramatically. It will something to watch. Ya have to wonder how many Porsches were bought with unecessary treatments.
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05-04-2020, 11:10 AM #16622
Which one do you go to around here? I went to the one in Willsonville and not many people were wearing masks, maybe 20% of shoppers and 50% of Costco staff. Lots of staff had the mask just hanging around their neck or had their mouth covered but not their nose.
I went to Lowe's over the weekend...what a complete and total shitshow. No SD'ing, zero restrictions on how many people are in the store (unlike Home Depot), lots of dumbshits creeping up on you while you stand in line. Had a couple of people fully masked up and 1-foot from my back in line for the register.Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that
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05-04-2020, 11:20 AM #16623
I do know her--or did 35 years ago, when she was briefly our FP/OB before we switched insurance to Kaiser. She became the public health director in Sacramento County. Surprised to see her as a deputy in Nevada County--probably wanted to move to Oldhippyville and work part time. She's good people.
Problem is the word theory. To a scientist it means a concept that is supported by evidence. To a lay person it means what hypothesis means to a scientist--something yet to be supported by evidence. We should discuss the word proven as well. No theory is ever proven in science, only in math. In science a theory is assumed to be correct only until it is supplanted or modified by the next theory--Newton's theory of gravity replaced by Einstein's. Which is why you should pay no attention to anything I say--my medical knowledge gets older by the day.
Back in the 70's doctors in LA went on strike over unaffordable malpractice insurance premiums. Death rates plummeted.
I do wonder how many medical and dental practices won't survive. Younger doctors and dentists especially have huge school debt, practice debt for equipment and for buying into a practice. (In private practice you don't just join a practice and start paying your share of the bills--you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege of an established patient base, reputation in the medical community. One reason more and more docs are working for hospitals on a salary.)
61% if us did. And those of you who didn't don't count as citizens or human beings IMO. We all got what you deserved.
RE the decrease in mammos--the great majority of cancers are not found by screening but by the patient. And it is estimated that the average breast cancer has been present for 9 years at the time of diagnosis, so a delay in screening is not a big deal.
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05-04-2020, 11:20 AM #16624
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05-04-2020, 11:21 AM #16625
Witnessed a Covid Survivor send off this morning at the hospital. Probably around 50 nurse/staff lined up in the lobby with signs, balloons etc, waiting for the patient to be discharged.
It was kind of cool/emotional. I went upstairs before the patient came through...probably a good thing, as I’d hate to get tearful in public...hah.
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