Saturday, November 21, 2009

Why does public health care work in some countries and not others

Why does public health care work in some countries and not others?
Does public health care really work in Canada? Does it really work in Sweden? Why will it or will it not work in the US. In my opinion Public Health only works in countries where the citizens really take care of themselves, and the system isn't loaded down where people suffer from self inflicted problems, cause by smoking or poor diet. I do believe I asked "WHY" is doesn't work. Not whether it works or not. I agree that Public HC doesn't work in Canada. Exellent answer Mommanuke!
Government - 10 Answers
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No, it doesn't work in other countries, that's why they all come here to get the health care they need.
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Name a country it works in? It doesn't work in Canada and my sister in law and her mother, who still lives there, can attest to that. It doesn't work in the UK. It doesn't work in Mexico. OK, I believe it may work in Sweden. Yeah, it's the fat smokers who cause the problems for public healthcare, not how it's run. Unbelievable!
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It kinda depends on what other taxes are imposed on the people and how much they are willing to pay in those taxes.
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some people like freedom and others like to be nannied
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Public health care DOES NOT work, especially in Canada. Regardless, this is America, we do not need the government involved in our health care or any part of our lives. The purpose of the government is to defend their citizens NOT to rule their lives.
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"In my opinion Public Health only works in countries where the citizens really take care of themselves, and the system isn't loaded down where people suffer from self inflicted problems, cause by smoking or poor diet." Private health care works even better in those situations as well. The difference is that with public health care, the government can use regulation and force to make people be healthier in the form of banning things and such. First I'd need to find out in which countries a public system is working. Not just perceived as working, but really working in terms of low costs and high availability and little to no wait times.
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As you can see from this article, Canadian health care works much better than that in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_health_care#Canadian_health_care_in_comparison The main problems in Canada are the same as in rural America, with under served areas outnumbering the cities. In addition, the WHO ranks Canada's system as 30th while the US system is ranked 37th. And Canadians don't dislike their system as much as you think. http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3276285 Canadians only come here if they can afford our prices. US citizens are beginning to go to places like India, Mexico, and Thailand for their health care. In some instances, the corporations they work for or the insurance company that covers them arranges chartered flights taking bunches of them abroad. http://www.truthout.org/article/amid-health-crisis-more-americans-going-abroad-care The Swedish system, which is totally different from Canada's, works very well. They still have wait times, but there is a guarantee that if the procedure cannot be scheduled with three months, the government will arrange to fly the person to another country to have it done. http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Work-live/Society-welfare/Health-care/Facts/Swedish-health-care/ You will also notice that their health care costs have remained relatively stable since 1980, instead of experiencing massive inflation as the one in the US. The number one system in the world in both WHO ratings and consumer satisfaction rating is the French system, which is a combination of government and private insurance similar to that which Obama is trying to get passed. How much can be blamed on personal health habits is difficult to analyze. For years the French were extremely heavy smokers and are only now beginning to see the changes we are seeing here in the States. All Europeans walk more than those in the US, but their countries and cities are not as widely spread out as in the US and they also have better public transport systems. They also do not have a culture which bases a large part of ones sense of self worth on what kind of car one drives. There is no stigma in most of the middle class and lower citizens for not owning a car. Almost every country in the world eats better than Americans, but if you want Americans to eat better, you are going to have to change production of agriculture in the US. An estimate was done last year that showed that if every American tried to eat the fruit and vegetable recommendations of the FDA, there would not be enough available for them to do so. You will also have to get rid of the third rail agricultural subsidies that have so much corn being grown that high-fructose corn syrup is now in everything from bread to bologna. But the real problem is, we have all these millions of people who are in poor health. What good will it do to tell them they deserve to be sick and not pay for their care?
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The real answer is that no matter what in countries where they have a socialized health care system the quality of care greatly diminishes. Cancer Survival by Country Coleman and colleagues drew on data from nearly 2 million cancer patients, ages 15 to 99, whose medical information was entered into 101 population-based cancer registries in 31 countries. The patients had been diagnosed with one of four cancers: breast, colon, rectum, or prostate cancers during the years 1990-1994. They were followed up to 1999, with the researchers comparing five-year survival rates. The highest survival rates were found in the U.S. for breast and prostate cancer The study showed the US had the highest five-year survival rates for breast cancer at 83.9% and prostate cancer at 91.9%. The UK had 69.7% survival for breast cancer, just above 40% for colon and rectal cancer for both men and women and 51.1% for prostate cancer. Older people are refused organ transplants and kidney dialysis in socialized countries. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7510121.stm Socialized medicine is killing people. People that are covered now and would get excellent care, will be killed. You may be deemed to old for health care and the government may choose to put you down. That is just the ones they report. i wonder f they even report the ones that they simply refuse to even treat because of age or costs. basically like any other time that the government gets involved it punishes those that are responsible for those that are irresponsible. If you look around the world at their socialized system you would be loosing health care. It would take you longer to see specialists, if you were to be stricken by cancer the government would decide weather or not you would be eligable for treatments. Right now, anyone in this country can have top notch health care. It simply has to be their priority. I got a job at 18 that provided health insurance. I was a teller at a bank. It was far from my ideal job at that time, but I needed health insurance and I made it a priority. Basically the government is taking health care from those that have it as a priority andgiving it to those that do not. There will not be more doctors, in fact the government will cap their pay and highly regulate them meaning there will be less doctors. There will not be more hospitals. Basically the government will not create any health care, it will simply distribute it. Also, they will take the profit motive from all companies related to the health care industry and that is where the only cost savings will come from. This may sound good, but it really means no new innovation because they will nto be compensated for R&D and the risk of putting all that money on the line for research if they do not make anything off of it. In countries where socialized insurance exists, there is no new innovation. We can not afford it. Basically the democrats claim that there are 47 Million people without health insurance. The Government plan costs way to much and it will still leave 20 Million uninsured. We will not only destroy health care for the middle class, but we are going to burry our children and grandchildren in debt all so able bodied and minded people simply do not have to take responsibility for themselves. Finally, The government health care plan will destroy private insurance plans. In this video it shows Obama talking about it as well as other democrats. They are fully aware that it will drown out private insurance. basically like any other time that the government gets involved it punishes those that are responsible for those that are irresponsible. If you look around the world at their socialized system you would be loosing health care. It would take you longer to see specialists, if you were to be stricken by cancer the government would decide weather or not you would be eligable for treatments. Basically the government is taking health care from those that have it as a priority andgiving it to those that do not.
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Public heath care works in Sweden because it encompasses every type of illness and everyone is and everyone is covered from the day they are born. It works when the population is willing to pay higher taxes not only for their own benefit, but for the benefit of everyone in their family, for example I may not be sick, but I have relatives that are and so they have the possibility of becoming healthy again without becoming a financial burden to the rest of the family and without the fear of not being cared for. Basically, public health care works when the system is properly managed and maintained by everyone the system is meant to care for.
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i ACTUALLY am Canadian so i feel i have a better idea about our health care system then non-Canadians who have nothing to go by but the propaganda they are being fed. No one in Canada is ever refused care. If you are sick you can be 203 and you will still get the care you need. My aunt is an 86 Year old alcoholic smoker and she is currently getting kidney dialysis. My grandmother passed away last year at 97 and she was receiving care right up into her last days. At 85 she got Cancer and was considering NOT having surgery and just allowing the disease to take its course. Her doctor was the one who convinced her to undergo the surgery and her care was so wonderful she lived another 12 years after that! .....no one is ever denied care here, even the suggestion is ludicrous! and if a doctor or the government ever tried it the Press and the people of Canada would through a fit and there would be a media frenzy. There are plenty of hospitals in Canada. The city i live in has a population of 140,000 and we have 2 hospitals. There are probably fewer hospitals in Canada then in the US, but there are also fewer people. And in Canada you can go to any hospital and receive the same high quality care. Can the same be said about the US? If everyone in Canada has the choice of going to any doctor they want and any hospital then logically it means they will all choose the best doctors and the best hospitals, which leaves no room for "pseudo" professionals and ill reputed hospitals. there is not a shortage of doctors (i have two family doctors one in the city my parents are from and one if the city i go to university). There is trouble finding doctors to work in remote areas, but that is also true in the US where doctors are also reluctant to work in low income areas - which is not a problem in canada. There are a lot of specialists in Canada and you do not have to wait to see them. My mum had a mole on her nose her doctor thought might be skin cancer and wanted to have lopped off. my mum wanted a 2nd opinion and the next went to see a specialist in the big city an hr from where i lived. Just like in the US specialists often work in big cities where there is a higher demand for their services, but they are NOT non existent in Canada. Why wouldn't it work? you already pay tax's (and they have already determined the Canadian health care system costs our government less money) AND you pay for health insurance. Why not pay that same amount of money in tax's and then not only will you and your family be taken care of but so will poor helpless children whose struggling single mothers cannot afford health care and dinner . . . . Are American doctors really greedy enough they would stop treating people if the prices they were able to charge became regulated by the government? Because that is not the case in Canada. Doctors still make A LOT of money here (med schools here are incredibly competitive as bright men and women vie to be caregivers . . . and to take home the respect and fat pay check doctors receive). It is true that family practitioners get paid a fix rate for each patient (depending on what your visit is for and the length of the appointment) but they are no more likely to cram in more patients to make more money than an American doctor would. A greedy person is going to try to see as many patients as they can no matter how much they are getting paid. It is easy to find a responsible practitioner who takes their time when seeing you. there is still innovation and competition in Canada. We have made many great medical inventions including insulin and the pacemaker. if a company (or professor or team of doctors) invents something or comes up with a new medical procedure they are not going to sell it exclusively in Canada (just as if they were American they would not just sell it exclusively in the US) therefore they can set whatever price they think the consumer will pay . . .but in Canada the consumer happens to be the government. It's not like they pay in seal pelts, those who invest in the research still make a lot of money off the end product. So there IS still innovation.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

can an italian national live and work in sweden

can an italian national live and work in sweden?
stockholm
Other - Europe - 2 Answers
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yes of course! that's not a problem if u find work and some were to live! if u want to live in centre of Stockholm its expensive and very hard to find something to rent! but outside in range off the subway its much easy er.
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Sure, but your life will be a lot easier, if you know at least basic Swedish. I mean, people speak really good English there, but landing a job without knowledge of local language is sometimes a bit tricky. (But possible, nevertheless)

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Will a Blu-Ray disc work in Sweden if it's from Uk

Will a Blu-Ray disc work in Sweden if it's from Uk?
Thanks It will be region 2
Home Theater - 3 Answers
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it depends on your blu ray player whether it region 1 or 2
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Blu-ray discs are classified into 3 regions. Region A includes most North, Central and South American and Southeast Asian countries plus Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. Region B includes most European, African and southwest Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand. Region C contains the remaining central and south Asian countries, as well as China and Russia. Since UK and Sweden both fall under 'Europe', it will most likely work. If not, however, there are software 'hacks' you can google up on your particular model which will allow it to play all regions, but I don't suggests you mess with it unless you know what you're doing.
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I live in the UK and bring DVD's back home to Sweden all the time. They work perfectly fine.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

As a master student, am i allowed to work in Sweden? if yes, is there any restriction

As a master student, am i allowed to work in Sweden? if yes, is there any restriction?

Studying Abroad - 1 Answers
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If you are studying in Sweden for a period of longer than three months and have a residence permit (which is required for studies of this length) then yes you are permitted to work, without restrictions, during the same period in which your residence permit is valid. You do not require a separate visa to do so.