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| Topic Started: 13 Aug 2014, 12:27 PM (153 Views) | |
| Sandy | 13 Aug 2014, 12:27 PM Post #1 |
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This is one thing I'm still trying to figure out if it's better or worse than in other countries.. While there may be faults in all systems, at the end of the day a lot of it comes down to money, or the lack of it.. Here we have two types of public health services, the public hospitals here are funded by taxpayer money and are there mainly for the majority of people who don't have, or can't afford health insurance.. The public hospitals usually offer just as much services as private hospitals, the downside is there's generally a longer wait for non urgent surgery such as knee or hip operations, serious heart operations and such still get high priority service of course, and get the same surgeon's doing the operations.. If people here are lucky enough to be able to afford health insurance, they get to stay in a private hospital and will quite often get things like knee or hip operations done sooner than in public hospital.. A lot of folk like myself tend to gripe about the public hospitals not doing knee and hip operations early enough, there's a lot of us that aren't to mobile because knees and hips are in pretty bad shape, but the hospital, or surgeons deem us as not bad enough as yet to warrant an operation, but then given the fact there's folk in wheelchairs suffering the same problems, operations have to be prioritised in order of seriousness, other things like age and other pre existing health issues may be taken into account too.. Obviously a 98 year old with heart and other serious health issues may not get a knee or hip operation where a 50 year old who is otherwise healthy will.. Sometimes things seem a bit unfair, butI guess we have to remember that there's always someone who's worse off than we are, so it ends up as a waiting game... |
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| Mozzie | 14 Aug 2014, 04:02 AM Post #2 |
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When you figure it out mate let me know how you did it, that way we can work on doing it over here |
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| Sandy | 14 Aug 2014, 12:45 PM Post #3 |
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It'd be good to come up with the perfect health system, it seems where ever we go in the world people complain and say things could be better.. At the end of the day they can only do so much with whatever money they get from the government, it's up to the hospital's to try and do the best they can with what they get.. Perhaps seeing some of the senior staff in some hospitals get smaller salaries would help, some here get huge sums of money each year... |
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| Sandy | 23 Aug 2014, 06:52 AM Post #4 |
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Some GP's now open on a Saturday morning which is good to see, mines one that opens and the thing that surprised me was that I didn't get charged any more than I would on a week day, in fact the doctor I saw charged a bit less than usual, maybe she figured they make enough out of me as it is, lol.. |
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