Subj : Re: Single payer health care
To : anthk
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Apr 08 2025 05:01 am
Re: Re: Single payer health care
By: anthk to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 01:05 am
> In serious life threatening cases, it's kinda the opposite. But, yes, on
> non-covered
> public healthcare issues such as teeth, these are sent to the private
> dentints. Someting that should have been socialized since the childhood,
> because tons of illnesses (soon maybe Alzheimer?) are related to teeth
> infections.
I am talking specifically about consitions that are covered by socialized healthcare and the social security system just pumps it out to private healthcare via subcontracts because they outright can't deal with all of it.
The point is if a given autonomy is pumping 50% of their TAC studies (for example) into private healthcare, you can bet they are pumping specifically the cases they don't want to deal with. You know, autistic children that are going to put out a show in the radiodiagnosis unit, or outright fucked up cases. No body wants to deal with a worse than average case so social healthcare workers who get paid no productivity aren't going to care much for those.
And then there is the pool of really fucked up fuckups that are nominally covered by socialized healthcare but nobody at social health services will take the case. We recently had a case of a young gal that cannot eat because her digestive tract is all messed up. At first she tried social services as everybody else but she was told what, in essence, was "Yeah you are covered, but nobody has time for your case, so get lost."
It depends on the particular unit, but socialized healthcare units that see a lot of use are usually very badly managed. If you show up at a rural consultory in a lot of places you will be lucky to find the Doctor within the official schedule, because half the time he won't show up at all. Orthopedia units are cronically overloaded - they kind of are too in the private sector, but the difference is that the private sector will go deep in debt in order to hire more people and build new installations to cope.
As much as I hate the private hospital we are contractors for, you have to concceed they are hell bent on providing service, to the point they have taken loans using nearly 100% of their equipment as guarantee. Compare that to socialized systems, in which they will take loans using YOUR assets as a guarantee, and then still fail to deliver.
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