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Aneirin -> RE: Britons defend their health care from US criticism (8/15/2009 7:57:22 AM)
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In the armed forces, to be in need of dental care, one was considered unfit for duty, very strange how in civilian life someone is considered fit to work even with screaming dental problems. Perhaps if GPs responded to the fact that rotting teeth and exposed cavities posed a real life threatening problem and there signed a person off work, it might force a inept government to rethink its policies due to a loss of productivity by the million or so former NHS dental patients who can no longer access dental care.
But what I am coming to understand about the NHS is, once it was a pour money in and work at a financial loss but keep the population healthcare at an accepted standard, now it seems to have become a situation where money matters more, the least money put in to achieve an aim the better, that being basic health care suffers, the deficit of nurses, the overworking of nurses, the lack of preventative medicine and one thing leads to another.
To me, a company and therefore a county's biggest asset is it's work force, a content work force can achieve anything asked of it, this penny pinching mentality that we have seemed to got into, will be the country's undoing as unhealthy, unhappy people feel less inclined to see the bigger picture due to the pain and discomfort they suffer. If a government tries to run a public health organisation as a successful business, people will lose out.
Even with GP's, they being trust holders, it is the same, many of my single friends, single male friends feel awkward going to the GP through the belief that healthcare finance is divided up into the most needy, starting with childcare, mothers, the elderly, the disabled and single supposedly healthy males, somewhere at the bottom of the list, fund allocation areas divided proportionaly. I have been told by my GP a few times, the funding isn't available when I have enquired about different treatments.But the solution I have found, is to get on their nerves, keep complaining.
If the US adopts a healthcare for all system, like we used to have, the money pit, but access to a basic standard for all, I believe it will work, you have nothing to fear, but if you adopt what appears to be our current situation, people will lose, as is being seen from afar. Private healthcare can and as in this country does run alongside public, a person if they have the money, or the preference can go private if they wish, but private should not be the only option available for less popular forms of healthcare, a bit like the difference between a first class seat on an airline, and cattle class, everyone is the same, it is just a person is prepared to pay more to get a better standard, which is no more safer than cattle class.
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