Now here is a lesson I learned while living in the UK. Since the National Health Service was DESIGNED to reward patients with SYMPTOMS, there was no rationale to keep people healthy.



I see the same phenomena here in Canada where the founding premises was the same. Fund looking at sickness rather than using preventative medicine.



Big Pharma has certainly learned how to take advantage of this problem over the past decades. So sad, really.



My dream is to PAY my doctor so much per year to keep me HEALTHY. If I do my part and take the suggestions, my doctor keeps the money. If I get SICK, my doctor would forgo getting paid. And don't get me wrong. I LOVE my doctor and wouldn't give her up for anything. But I'd like to pay her for all that care and attention , not for sessions for dispensing drugs.



BTW, sometimes simply drinking water to take those expensive 'scripts does MORE for your health then taking them expensive PILLS. Works wonders in herbology that you HAVE to take water to ingest most of the cures, eh what ...?



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The healthcare system in America is in serious trouble.


The doctors are getting squeezed by insurance companies for profit, while the drug


companies hold out money and gifts. A large percentage of doctors are


ready to hang it up because they can not stand having insurance


companies be their master, but are too decent of a person to take the


drug companies handouts.





One of the biggest ripoff now happening is the rebranding of


grandfathered drugs. Drug companies are dusting off obsolete


medicines, giving them a new name and charging top dollar for the new


drug, where the drug which replaced it 50 years ago is cheaper and


more effectve, but does not command the same profit.





The only hope i see is if american healthcare system adopted the


medical homes model. Under this model, the local clinic takes charge


over patient care. Under this model, primary health care equates to


$500 per person or $1,500 per family.





Under insurance current insurance, there is no incentive for the


patient to become well.





With a $500 deductible, most people simply avoid going to the doctor.


I this case, the doctor receives no money and the patient stays sick.





Should a person meet their person $500 deduction, the doctor benefits


the more time you visit. As long as the patient does not get better,


the doctor can make more money. These are the doctors and the cases


where overpriced prescriptions come in. The greater the price of the


prescription, the less likely it is for a patient to use it, therefor


the more likely it will be that the patient will return.





In the medical homes model, the customer pays the $500 up front, which


places it in the doctors best interest to keep you healthy for the


year. Since the clinic is basically contracted to be open a fixed


number of days each week, with a predefined patient load, it really


doesn't matter taking in a very sick person as a new customer. If they


can make this person well again, he will stay as a customer.





The American academy of pediatrics was the group who founded the concept.


http://www.medicalh omeinfo.org/





This link is from the american medical association.


http://www.ama- assn.org/ amednews/ 2007/04/09/ prsc0409. htm





Medical homes represents the capitalist version of socialized


medicine. Price is calculated based on expenses plus profit, divided


by the number of patients. Doctors don't need to expense each band


aide to each patient, but instead just need to keep track of how many


band aides were used in a year. Given this structure, cash patients


are always welcome.





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Only when doctors are put in charge of primary care, rather than


faceless insurance companies, will the prescription drug problem get


straightened out. Right now, the doctors have no problem screwing the


insurance company with overpriced drugs, then get a kickback for being


part of a study of the patients who use the overpriced drug. The


doctors i know are good people, who just want to be a doctor. The


didn't spend 12 years in school to hire a staff of medical coders.

fred

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