After watching "Medical Insider" (1): Gray "American Dream"
Every country has its dark side. Before watching this documentary, my understanding of American medical care was limited to a few words from my neighbor (his daughter works in the United States , and he compliments him every time he sends him health care products). That is to say , I never thought that ordinary people in the United States would be so helpless when faced with medical care . I never thought that there would be hospitals in the United States that would refuse emergency treatment to children with high fever , so that the little angel passed away like this . I think there should be no such evil hospitals in China . It never occurred to me that when the doctor faced a patient with two broken fingers, the first thing he did was not perform debridement surgery, but told him how much it would cost to attach this finger and how much would it cost to attach that finger.
In China, everyone talks about the benevolence of doctors . This kind of benevolence should be possessed by every medical worker . I think this kind of benevolence knows no borders, but what are the American doctors in the documentary doing? Such a medical system will only allow insurance companies make a lot of money and allow the elites of the United States to obtain high-quality medical resources, but what about ordinary people? I think health care reform is not about making health care completely free (because this is unrealistic ), but about making it affordable for the poor .
A good country should not let its citizens suffer in housing, healthcare and education . A good country should not let its citizens feel helpless.
"Medical Insider" after watching (2): shudder
The film begins to show us the layers of shady under the American medical system, from the despair of those without medical insurance to the dilemma faced by those who already have medical insurance. Then, the director came to Canada, the United Kingdom and France. Here we see an unimaginably complete medical security system, which is a heaven and a hell compared to the previous two .
This documentary criticizes the pharmaceutical and insurance industries in the United States, as well as the indifference and cover-up of generations of government officials. Nevertheless, the film has passed the censorship in the United States and can be released.
It is said that the two countries with the highest taxes in the world are France and China. After reading "Medical Insider", I know that French taxpayers are enjoying the social benefits they deserve , and if this subject is filmed in China, it will be What kind of situation?
Whenever I watch these foreign documentaries, such as this year's Oscar-nominated "Food Company," I can't help but think of ourselves, and the conclusion is -- shudder.
After watching "Medical Insider" (3): No "medicine" can be trusted
I looked forward to watching Michael Moore's "Medical Insider" and was not disappointed . This fat guy really dares to say anything. In the past " Fahrenheit 911 " and "Columbine Campus Incident", he criticized the government and President Bush so blatantly . Well he is in America. Even in a country like the United States, people who dare to tell the truth and expose the inside story of various government corruption will not be entertained. The government hates him for sure, but he can’t do anything with the protection of the Bill of Rights, so he can only go with him helplessly. Toss, President Bush must be the only person in the world who doesn't watch his movies, but he can't stop other people from loving him, especially the disgruntled vulnerable groups, so he is more and more reckless , this time he is going to shoot the American ones medical system.
Sometimes I think that China and the United States may be the two most similar countries in the world. They have the same vast resources, the same uneven population distribution, and the same super metropolis. The present of the United States may be the future of China . So when I saw in the movie that the emergency center had to pay first to provide first aid, the patient would be kicked out of the hospital if they had no money; I saw the ridiculously high drug prices and treatment fees, and the poor always had no reliable doctor; It's not surprising that you will have to deduct money or even keep your job, etc. It seems to be commonplace , and it is the same in the United States , but it is not the same in the whole world, not even in Cuba, which is in the same camp as ours.
After staying in the hospital for a long time, I have seen too many tragic stories , especially because of lack of money, rural people will always choose to give up treatment and go home to die. At this time, I always feel very sad , and I am so lucky . The unfair distribution of social resources ultimately leads to an unfair destiny . We are not worthy of equality, human rights, and humanity. Neither does America. Considering that most western countries (even Cuba) have a free medical system subsidized by the state, people in their countries feel incredible that they have to pay to go to the hospital, and even the hospital will pay you to thank you for not using an expensive treatment. Your money, sick leave is also paid with full salary, I was speechless, which made me want to " live elsewhere" more and more. Why is there such a big gap between people on the same earth? If the United States is the only western country that does not implement free medical care, where does China rank among the odds in the world? Some people say that there are too many Chinese people, and the government can't afford it. As for Russia, even when the economy is the most difficult , citizens still enjoy public medical care. If it 's ideological differences to blame , then we are too far from the original intention of socialism, and Cuba is the best one. When the government takes the people's life and health as its top priority, I don't think there's anything we can't do with our government 's top -notch executive power.
After watching "Medical Insider" (4): SICKO in the eyes of a college student
The truth is, the first impression I felt after watching the movie was that I should go to Canada to study. The United States is no longer the United States in the Chinese American dream. But after reading a lot of film reviews and knowing that "SICKO" was filmed at the same time as Canada has a corresponding "Dead meat", I knew that it is not so simple about American medical insurance, about fairness and efficiency .
In the film, Moore uses seemingly casual jokes and satire to directly attack the soft underbelly of American medical insurance - fairness. Young people who stitched up their wounds with a wry smile , old couples who moved into a poor daughter ’s family , and firefighters who had to submit applications to get help after being regarded as heroes, the film nakedly revealed the injustice of the American medical insurance system to the people at the bottom. The deepest impression is that the doctor who signed an unknown number of deny expresses his deep regret , the indifferent expression of the manager of the medical insurance company who rejected so many lives because of the seal of his name , and the need to call an ambulance first. The ridiculous scenario of calling the insurance company to apply. The commercial medical insurance system in the United States is not a fundamental mistake . It has brought about the high efficiency of medical personnel and made an indelible contribution to the leading medical research field in the United States . What's wrong is that its government regulation is ineffective. Why can't patients with diseases buy commercial insurance, and the conditions are so harsh that they are too fat and too thin? Why are you dying in your lifeDo you also ask the insured to make a phone call first and then call an ambulance? Why can the medical insurance company arbitrarily instruct doctors to deny the insured necessary tests on those applications in order to save money? In my opinion, compared with the commercial insurance system that exists widely all over the world, what lies behind these shady stories is the government's weak supervision. Can't the commercial insurance system expand the insured population? If there is no such harsh threshold, if employers share more expenses accordingly, if medical insurance companies are truly non-profit, they can put the health of the insured in the first place, so that the insured can get the examination and treatment that they deserve, even in Under the principle of voluntariness, will Americans who have received health first and risk education since childhood not take the initiative to participate in insurance? Every system and plan always has its advantages and disadvantages. There is no perfect plan in this world, and some are the continuous improvement of the implementer. A good system plan needs a good implementer. Singapore's system has few criticisms not only because it is a small country, but also because it has encountered problems and is constantly improving and supplementing. In the United States, every leader seems to hold the banner of health care reform. Hillary was eventually bought off, so what about Obama? Under the manipulation behind those wealthy interest groups, how far can he go on the road of medical reform? American healthcare reform needs not only a new system, but also a truly independent government for the people.
When watching the movie, it reminds me of China. The patient with kidney failure knelt on the ground and begged the doctor not to help him on dialysis because his family could not afford it ; the ambulance drove to the patient's house and saw that his family was poor and left; the young doctor was gradually numb because he was trained to treat poor patients; There are countless classmates who are arguing with the medical insurance office because they are not reimbursed by medical insurance. If the inside story of China's medical insurance is revealed, it is estimated to be a history of blood and tears that will stir the world, but there is no such thing as Moore in the context of China. of people. China's application is to imitate Germany's social insurance model, which should be more advanced than the United States, but China's fairness and efficiency have not yet reached. Compared with the United States, China is still a developing country . It has a huge population but does not have the fantastic per capita GDP of the United States. It has gone through the war of resistance against Japan. As a reborn country, we should understand it. But understanding does not mean compromise. The social security model we choose is different from the United States. Its original intention is to ensure that people in the civilian class can enjoy basic medical insurance. The people at the bottom of the United States do not receive good protection because of its commercial insurance model. The original intention is related, but the United States has more sufficient financial resources to provide medical assistance to the poor than China, so what about China? Why does China, whose original intention is to ensure that all people enjoy basic medical security, is even more tragic than the people at the bottom of the United States?
Going back to Moore's film to find the answer , although Moore exaggerated the medical insurance in Britain, Canada, and France from a biased angle, it seems too cunning, but there are some thought-provoking words in it. A former British politician once said that democracy is the core, and democracy is to allow the poor to have the right to vote. The high-level officials of many countries do not want their citizens to be confident and educated, because this will make They are out of control. Perhaps the problem in China today is not just the government's lack of supervision, but the lack of channels to listen to the voices of the people. It is impossible for the American Moore to appear in China. Just like Chairman Mao himself once said, if Lu Xun had Living up to now is either in silence or in prison. The implementer of a good system needs not only one person , but also the opinions of more people. The people who have the deepest understanding of the good and bad of social security are not those government officials who have public medical care or potential "private doctors", nor those who The wealthy who bought expensive commercial insurance will not worry about the next life, but these people living at the bottom . Now, more and more people who are selected as deputies to the National People's Congress and those who convey the voice of the people have changed from working people to stars and big entrepreneurs . Isn't China repeating the mistakes of the United States? For today's China, perhaps true democracy is what the government and medical reform need most.
Finally, I thought it might be time to sigh about the impact of being a health insurance on medical staff. As a medical student in a medical school , although most of us will not embark on the path of a doctor after prevention, we know better than others the bitterness of being a medical staff. Those of our classmates who will become doctors of the future, they all came to this campus with the help of life-saving and respect for doctors. We can clearly see the persistence in their eyes every time they read the medical student oath . But what is the current medical environment like? It was the patient's family who refused to sign because of distrust . The doctor could only watch the patient die. It was the young doctors who looked at the dying patient outside the door with sympathy but did not dare to rescue. It was the clinical teacher who was exhausted after a few night shifts . On the podium, he said with a wry smile, "It's better if you don't study clinical practice. The current medical environment... The bitterness contained in the lingering voice is self-evident . The role of medical insurance should be to create a fair medical environment for doctors, so that doctors can treat every equal life regardless of the rich and the poor. But the fact is that life is divided into three, six and nine classes because you have money and you don't have money . It's not the doctor's fault, there is no life they don't want to save, but they are also human, and they will get sick in the future, their loved onesThey will also get sick. In such an insecure society, the situation where the whole family, young and old, is waiting for them to support them, which kills them. In the United States, you can get a lot of funding to do the world's top medical experiments and research, while in the United Kingdom you can save a patient regardless of wealth What students expect is that medical insurance can make it a multiple choice question.
"Medical Insider" After Viewing (5): My Movie Viewing Record
11:35 What an interesting bridge. Famous documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is gathering information for his next film , I have sent information about CIGNA not paying my medical bills, has your CEO ever been in a movie before? Hahaha, so funny! Like their fighting spirit [hee hee]
13:38 The words of the insurance company staff directly hit the heart
14:10 Hahahaha this is so funny! Chinese production is very conscientious! Praise!
31:17 That's awesome! What an emotional speech! Today I will propose a new National Health Service system, the purpose of this plan is to give American citizens access to the best health insurance in the world, so that every American citizen can receive timely treatment
33:23 The conversation between the governor and Hillary is really interesting , lol
The more you oppose, the more famous you are, the bigger the reward you get, and the more you get bribed, you no longer oppose , wow! ! ! ! Very interesting
40:24 The price is clearly marked. oh. They all loved their mothers. It's just that they didn't love our mothers as much.
Canada is great!
56:38 Funny black couple hey hey
57:45 Wow! ! ! ! ! ! ! Hospital transfers in the UK can also cover their transport costs. . . . . . wow! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
64:12 The UK healthcare system is just too perfect! Looking at the doctor's state , he is very energetic. "No, I don't need to worry about money in my daily work" A system beyond money!
64:45 Hahahaha, look at his (director) mouth, hahahaha! Too much content [laugh cry] a mouthful of jealousy [haha]
70:28 What a chilling story [ heartbreak ]
74:15 France is great! 3 months recovery period! marvelous! So humane ! ! ! Excellent!
The French doctor's door-to-door service is really caring! [Heart]
Hahahaha, the director's jealous look made me laugh to death [haha]
98:30 Is the dog outside the window real or the background? It's really interesting. The photos of the two kids in the front are great!
98:35 What a stark contrast to the situation of the previous volunteers! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! One point, shouldn't prisoners be treated well? the. Another point, terrorist attacks, became famous. Again, what an irony.
107:17 The US $120 drug is only 5 cents in Cuba, I can't stand it! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah this is the " House MD " in the first quarter says just changed the packaging (the country) only
This doctor in Cuba is so handsome, very handsome, with very long eyelashes and beautiful
At the end, "The Lun family also wants the government to do laundry for me" Hahaha, so funny! This fat man is too humorous hahaha [laugh cry] Interesting!
After watching "Medical Insider" (6): About the American documentary "Medical Insider"
1. I see that many of my stereotypes, many opinions and viewpoints are the result of social propaganda.
For example, the strikes in France, enjoyment, and the sluggishness of the European economy are very impressive. So the state pays huge amounts of money for this? Why is the expenditure of funds not in the lives of citizens, and where should the expenditure of funds be?
Many of these patients in the film think that Cuba is an evil country, but they did not expect that they can enjoy free medical care and solve problems that they cannot solve in the United States.
2. Many people say that this documentary is one-sided and not objective enough;
I am wondering whether a documentary or an opinion must be comprehensive and objective in order to be acceptable or valuable. Is it wrong to deny a commentary point of view now in the name of not being objective enough?
Everyone expresses their views for the benefit of themselves or the group they represent. When someone agrees, there must be someone on the other side who expresses opposing views. Understanding things comprehensively and objectively should be the job of the audience or decision-maker, not the one who makes the point.
During the reading of Roosevelt's New Deal in " Glory and Dreams ", what I felt most deeply was that the introduction of each policy was achieved after the compromise and balance of various groups and interests. Each group desperately expressed its own views and was only responsible for itself. In the end, the parties reached a balance and obtained a more satisfactory result.
You are only responsible for yourself, not for others, and the upper level or larger representative is responsible for balance and comprehensiveness.
"Medical Insider" after watching (7): the place of medical reform
As one of the few countries in developed countries without universal healthcare, the cost of healthcare is a burden to most people. It is mentioned in the video that the insurance company is all about profit. Many people have bought expensive insurance but cannot get the protection they deserve. When one person falls ill, the whole family faces bankruptcy. Compare the benefits of universal healthcare in Canada, the UK, France, and even Cuba (this part feels a bit glorified and exaggerated). Reform is necessary, but reform is so difficult.
Hillary Clinton's proposal was rebutted, and Obama's 2010 health care reform narrowly passed. In the film, it is said that universal healthcare was implemented in the United Kingdom one month after World War II, but Hillary brought it up in the United States many years after World War II, but met with so much resistance. 9/11 brought the United States together like never before, and for the British people every day after World War II felt like 9/11. This may be one of the reasons why the UK can implement universal health care. History can be adjusted up and down by itself, but after communicating with some American students, they also feel that the American dream is becoming more difficult now.
After watching "Medical Insider" (8): The "health care reform" in the UK is also bad
Author: Luke 2011-12-05
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Michael Moore's documentary "SICKO" boasted that the UK's public health service (NHS) system is very superior, everyone is equal, everyone is free, medical services are considerate, and medical staff are highly paid...
Is the UK healthcare system really that good? Is the socialist medical model really worth learning from the United States? Is the system in which the government takes over, coordinates and distributes more efficient than the "invisible hand" of the free market? Consumers' free choice cannot play a role in this field to achieve effective resource allocation?
Which is better or worse, let's see how the British evaluate the NHS system. A 2008 poll found that only 34% of British patients believed the NHS system was superior.
The Daily Mail of London reported in 2007, "More and more Britons are choosing to seek medical treatment overseas in order to avoid the NHS system. This year, about 70,000 patients went abroad for medical treatment, a record high. "This summer, Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament (Southeast England), visited the United States. He warned the American people "never imitate the NHS. The NHS medical system is a 60-year mistake."
Minette Marrin, a columnist for the Times of London, wrote: "According to a recent report, within a decade, 200,000 Britons will travel for medical treatment. They even fly as far as Malaysia, South Africa for surgery to avoid long waits and a C. diff infestation in NHS hospitals."
However, why in the film "SICKO", we see that the hospital is clean and spotless, the patients are chatting and laughing, the doctors are doing their best, and the nursing work is meticulous? You simply can't tell that the British people will have any dissatisfaction with the NHS.
As it turns out, the documentary SICKO is not honest. Mr Moore has concealed many of the problems with Britain's public health care system.
When "SICKO" was released, the British people also launched a heated debate, "whether the NHS is as good as the Americans say", "whether "SICKO" truly reflects the current situation of British medical care". So, BBC Radio 4 asked NHS supporters, Professor Robert Winston, a policy adviser to the British NHS, to ask the question.
Professor Winston replied: "No, I don't think so, most of the film was shot in my hospital, which is a very good hospital in the UK ( Hammersmith Hospital in West London ) and does not represent The state of the NHS system”
What is the situation of the HS system?
The HS organization is very bloated, and its workforce even exceeds the national army, with 1.4 million employees, ranking third in the world! You must know that the population of the UK is only about 60 million, which means that every 60 people have an NHS employee.
Some people say, isn't this very good, and the medical and nursing teams in other places are not enough? The United Kingdom is also short of medical staff. The so-called huge NHS team, most of which are not doctors and nurses providing care, but bureaucrats and managers. In such a giant state institution, the people also have medical problems.
Nearly 850,000 patients in the UK are waiting to be admitted to NHS hospitals. Under the public health care system, there is a shortage of medical teams, and 50,000 operations are forced to be cancelled every year. According to a survey by John Goodman, chairman of the National Policy Analysis Center, nearly 40% of cancer patients are unable to receive timely diagnosis from oncologists and delay treatment.
In May 2007, the BBC published the waiting time for British patients, which showed that the waiting time for cataract surgery was 8 months, the hip replacement surgery was 11 months, the knee replacement surgery was 12 months, the disc herniation surgery was 5 months, and the hernia repair was 5 months. moon.
Not only that, columnist Minnat Marin said that many hospitals in the country's system are already on the verge of collapse. Hospitals are underfunded, beds are insufficient, and sanitation is poor (severe Bacillus infection). Their nurses and cleaners earn very low wages, and they are reluctant to sell cheap labor, even if they quit collectively. Young doctors are being dispatched arbitrarily by the government with no regard for the personal choices of doctors, excellent doctors in the country are not yet working, but foreign doctors are still pouring in, and the management of the NHS system is abysmal.
Daniel Hannan said the UK had a lower cancer relative survival rate than the US in terms of care outcomes, and wait times were longer than in the US. He said that the so-called free does not mean that there is no cost. If the patient does not receive timely medical treatment, he can only spend it at home and cannot work, which is also a cost. When foreigners arrive in the UK, they are worried that they will get sick there.
The government takes over medical care, and the payment system that the government pays for is not without cost. The government cannot operate like a private insurance company, a private medical institution. Private companies place great emphasis on cost-effectiveness , potential risks, disease prevention, and service quality, which can be the keys to a sustainable business . All government programs have inefficiencies in their implementation and cannot control spending.
The various problems of American medical care are not caused by the free market at all, but because they are not operated according to the law of market buying and selling.
Commodity transactions, generally buyers and sellers, providers and consumers. For Medicare and Medicaid planned by the government, the consumer is the public, but the payer is a third party - the government. The government encourages employers to buy insurance for their employees and supports tax cuts. It is the employee who enjoys medical insurance, but the employer buys the insurance policy, and the insurer pays the employee's medical expenses, not the consumer himself.
Originally, buying and selling was a matter of both parties, and it was a matter of mutual benefit and mutual benefit. As a result, a third party intervened. For example, marriage and love were originally a matter between lovers, but now they must go through a third party - parents, which is troublesome. Negotiation is not the business of both parties, it becomes someone else's business.
Medical consumers feel that it is free anyway, so of course he is not worried about the cost. Since the buyer doesn't care about the price at all, isn't it normal for medical expenses to go up? Obama carried out health care reform, but stipulated that employers entrust and expand public health care, which is equivalent to carrying forward the third-party payment model, which can also reduce medical expenses? Dream it.
Horrible government rationing in HS
Once the government finds that medical spending is out of control and cannot continue to support it, it must be reduced through rationing, limiting the supply. Government rationing is often ruthless. A few days ago, the widely discussed "end-of-life counseling" and "death sentence platform" in the state-run medical reform, as well as the so-called "human saving value", must have made many terminally ill patients restless.
Under the NHS system, hospitals in the UK encountered insufficient funds and also implemented rationing. The Daily Telegraph has reported cases of NHS hospitals refusing to treat the eyes of veterans of World War II because of lack of funding.
World War II hero Jack Tagg suffered from age-related macular degeneration and could lose his vision for up to two months without the necessary injections.
Mr Tucker is eligible for publicly funded treatment, but the injection has been rejected by the NHS, which they say will only fund it if Tucker loses sight in one eye. The doctor gave him three options: either go with the flow and wait for blindness; either apply for funding, or pay for the injection himself. To that end, Mr. Tucker may have to sell the house he shares with his wife.
Tucker friend Martin Rankin, a GP, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Brown saying "this is an example of your Labour government's incompetence in running the NHS". The letter read: "You may never have met Jack and his lovely wife, but I tell you, he was born and died for us, and now you run the NHS, and our patients think it's better for you to spend thousands of pounds for Jack than to save a family. Incompetent Bank".
The open letter was positively responded to by doctors on the website. 120 doctors signed a protest, and each sent a cheque of 5 pounds to Brown, saying, "Since you are not competent to manage the NHS, we are not forced to do anything for Jack's so-called NHS. Healing, we just need you to transfer all the money to Jack as medical bills, that's all."
How good is the NHS?
"Medical Insider" after watching (9): We cut them in
In the past few days, I have watched most of Michael Moore's documentaries in one go, and I have also carefully watched some of his interviews and everyone's film reviews. I cried while watching Sicko, especially when I saw patients being thrown into the street by the hospital, I couldn't control my tears. Many people have different opinions on this movie. They can say that the movie is criticizing the Democratic Party, or Nixon, or the Bush administration's policy on universal health care, or it can be said that it is a torture of the so-called democratic system in the United States, and it can be said that it is a A conspiracy theory. I didn't get to the bottom of why Michael Moore made this film, and I didn't want to consider the political angle of the film. I just wanted to watch this movie as a person, so I was in tears. If we evolved tens of thousands of years to become conscious humans, building a so-called civilized human society, we would be able to throw our sick fellows on the street to die just because they couldn't afford the medical bills. Then I think our evolution is not towards civilization but towards destruction. I remember a quote from Yuri, the arms dealer played by Nicolas Cage in Lord of War, that is well reflected in this movie. In the movie, when Yuri illegally buys arms from his uncle, the former Soviet Red Army general, his uncle asks him what he would do if someone traces it, and he says "Then we cut them in." Silently charging insurance company benefits. If you ask me what I think about hospitals throwing patients on the street because they don't have money, I can also answer with one line "I don't care is legal, is wrong!".
After watching "Medical Insider" (10): Who will pay for my medicines?
The film " The Psycho " draws out the American medical system through those who live in embarrassment due to expensive medical expenses, and then compares the American medical system with Britain, France, Canada and Cuba. In fact, the whole film It seems to me that it is asking a question: Who should pay for the citizens' drug expenses? !
European and American countries are both welfare countries. Why is the medical system of the United States and Britain and France so different? Why is it that when the American people are sad because they can't afford to see a doctor, the British and French compatriots are enjoying a "worry-free life" under the perfect medical system? ". The reason for this is that they have different attitudes towards the inequality of wealth and different perceptions of the value of the rich and the poor. In continental countries, social welfare accounts for 45% of GDP, while in the United States it is only 30%. Many Europeans believe that poverty is forced by circumstances, while most Americans believe that poverty is caused by personal laziness. And this is the fundamental reason why the medical system in the United States and Britain and France are different.
In fact, the French medical system is not as perfect as in the film. Many people will start a long wait because of a minor illness, and many people miss the best time for treatment because of the long waiting time. In addition, such a medical system also imposes a great burden on the national finances. The government has carried out a variety of reforms in order to reduce the deficit, and its measures are mainly to increase insurance premiums for policyholders and reduce compensation rates. As the real income of investors fell, the insurance purchase rate also fell. In the case of economic stagnation and the increase of the unemployed, social insurance has become one of the reasons for the vicious circle of the sluggish insurance industry by increasing insurance rates. And if this situation goes on like this in the long run, it is very likely that it will cause "national bankruptcy" like Greece. Maybe you will say that this is unfounded, how can old capitalist countries like Britain and the United States be as "vulnerable" as Greece. But in fact, the Greek problem is only the tip of the iceberg of the disease of the welfare state in Europe and the United States. Although Greece is "ahead of the times" on the debt issue, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and even the United Kingdom and the United States are not far behind. Statistics show that the debt to GDP ratio of developed countries is close to 100%, and the aging of the population and the generalization of welfare may further aggravate this debt. The national response is to reform, and health care reform must be among them. If the reformed medical plan requires citizens to pay more for their own medical expenses, will those "happy people" in Britain and France become disoriented and take to the streets to demonstrate?
Let's look at the United States again. There are three types of medical insurance systems in the United States: private, social and social welfare insurance systems, and private insurance accounts for one-third of the entire insurance industry. In addition, the government has special medical insurance support for the elderly, children, veterans and low-income families. But because of the high commercialization of the medical insurance industry, medical insurance, a service commodity that can be sold and purchased, has become more and more expensive. Private medical insurance is purchased by employers for employees, which has also led to the inability of employees in some companies with poor efficiency or small scale to purchase appropriate medical insurance, and the number of such people has reached 40 million. 40 million Americans do not have health insurance, meaning a single illness could cost them money.
On the other hand, because of such a medical insurance system, the medical service market in the United States lacks regulation, while doctors and insurance companies have more decision-making power. As a result, there is a phenomenon of "checking a lot of minor illnesses, or no treatment for serious illnesses", and improving the current medical conditions is also the main reason for Obama's medical reform. Obama's health care reform plan plans to make nearly all Americans have health insurance by 2014. The government will also provide Medicare subsidies for individuals earning less than $43,320 a year and families of three earning less than $73,240. The bill also stipulates that the government can urge companies to provide health insurance to employees through a series of incentives and penalties, and prohibit insurance companies from denying insurance requirements or raising premiums because of their own health problems. However, such regulations are precisely shaking the profit sources of drug dealers and insurance giants. Although the medical reform plan is difficult to pass, it is unknown whether the lobbying group of the wealthy businessmen will pull the members of the Senate into their own camp to prevent the medical reform from being carried out. And this is out of our control, but the American people can have choices because they have the right to vote . As mentioned at the beginning of the article , Americans who advocate freedom believe that poverty is caused by their own laziness. And their rich and poor values are also reflected in their votes for political parties. When you think about which party to vote for, your moral judgments about rich and poor come to the fore. Which party's economic policy is more concerned with the interests of the poor, and which party is defending the immediate interests of the rich? When you cast that vote, your inclination is already determined. A large part of the failure of the Democratic midterm elections represented by Obama is that he lost the support of the broad middle class because of his health care reform plan. And this also shows the attitude of many Americans towards health care reform, which is their judgment on the moral standards of the rich and the poor. You can't judge their right and wrong because you can't assure them that life will be better after health reform.
In the election two years later, I don’t know whether Obama can continue his American dream, and whether the American people will allow the Obama who gave them hope four years ago to lead them to realize their dreams again, and I don’t know what happened at that time. How far will healthcare reform go? However, no matter who leads the medical reform, the most important thing is how to change it. If I were a member of the United States of America, I would rather not have the medical system turned into a French medical system. Even though I may go bankrupt because of illness under the current system, if it is changed to the French model, then this "dream country" may die because of the illness of its citizens. You can call me extreme and pessimistic, but no one Can assure me it won't happen. And I can only look forward to the smooth progress of the medical reform, and also look forward to the part of the drug bill that 'I' can pay for.
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