I lived in Cali for 29 years, and I don't remember anyone who qualified praising Medi-Cal much other than the non-expense. Fewer doctors/dentists accepted it from what I recall.
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US healthcare is completely dysfunctional. Until the much-maligned Obamacare/ACA, my neighbor worked at gaming startups. His wife got pregnant and then his company collapsed, so he couldn't even do the COBRA thing and personally pay into his former employer's group plan. And with his wife's "pre-existing condition" of being pregnant, nobody would cover them. The system basically destroyed people from working in innovative startups if they wanted to have a family.
And while that is fixed, it still remains that healthcare is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.
And while no health care is "free", I've witnessed the efficiencies Portugal gets by having a national cancer care system while eliminating the bureaucracies of 200 different care plans and administrators arguing over whether your care is covered or not. As a result, it's no Club Med, but the care is great in humble buildings and even people from other countries try to come here for care if they can, paying out of pocket to participate.
And while that is fixed, it still remains that healthcare is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.
And while no health care is "free", I've witnessed the efficiencies Portugal gets by having a national cancer care system while eliminating the bureaucracies of 200 different care plans and administrators arguing over whether your care is covered or not. As a result, it's no Club Med, but the care is great in humble buildings and even people from other countries try to come here for care if they can, paying out of pocket to participate.
I'm glad you bring this up, because this is precisely why I believe the US won't infinitely retain its title as king of innovation.
It is an economy that forces people to stick around in dead end jobs, because those jobs come with benefits. I guess we all agree that you can make more money in the US than in Europe by growing a business. But the risks you have to overcome are also substantially bigger. Opportunity can also come from taking those risks away.
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Portugal is an interesting example.
I'm sure Americans think healthcare in countries like Spain, Italy and Portugal is completely backwards and you depend on retarded doctors. Hell, sometimes even Northern and Western Europeans can be guilty of thinking along those lines. But the reality is that (with the exception of some seemingly mafia owned territories in Italy) healthcare in those countries is just as good as it is here.
It is an economy that forces people to stick around in dead end jobs, because those jobs come with benefits. I guess we all agree that you can make more money in the US than in Europe by growing a business. But the risks you have to overcome are also substantially bigger. Opportunity can also come from taking those risks away.
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Portugal is an interesting example.
I'm sure Americans think healthcare in countries like Spain, Italy and Portugal is completely backwards and you depend on retarded doctors. Hell, sometimes even Northern and Western Europeans can be guilty of thinking along those lines. But the reality is that (with the exception of some seemingly mafia owned territories in Italy) healthcare in those countries is just as good as it is here.
At least when you go bankrupt because you need an appendectomy you can mock Europeans for being socialists.
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Ukraine is fucked, but it was fucked regardless of who became president.
Stocks rose exponentially the last few hours, but I expect more of a crash the coming months.
I think you can go back 50 years and find that a Democrat president has almost always been better for the economy.
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Ukraine is fucked, but it was fucked regardless of who became president.
Stocks rose exponentially the last few hours, but I expect more of a crash the coming months.
I think you can go back 50 years and find that a Democrat president has almost always been better for the economy.
Look, even I had a pro-U.S. bias coming into the Portugal health care system. I was suspicious of always being a generation or two behind on what the standard of care was in the U.S. And the classic of not being able to access certain drugs or therapies under national coverage if you wanted them.
The drug formulary is national in Portugal. And while it doesn't offer 17 different choices for a condition, it covers maybe 3-4. And those 3-4 are more than good enough. We're still behind on the newest shingles vaccine, the newest generation of blood glucose monitor sensors, etc., but the formulary works and you can pay out of pocket for the bleeding edge stuff.
And after getting a diagnosis like my leukemia, I am glad to be treating it here and not the U.S.
The drug formulary is national in Portugal. And while it doesn't offer 17 different choices for a condition, it covers maybe 3-4. And those 3-4 are more than good enough. We're still behind on the newest shingles vaccine, the newest generation of blood glucose monitor sensors, etc., but the formulary works and you can pay out of pocket for the bleeding edge stuff.
And after getting a diagnosis like my leukemia, I am glad to be treating it here and not the U.S.
I hate systems like that to the core.
It doesn't work like that in Belgium for healthcare, but it does for legal advice. This means that people with no or almost no income can retain a lawyer for free, while people who work will have to carry the full burden. This sounds great in theory to make sure everyone gets adequate legal advice. In reality it can ruin people who have worked their entire lives. People who really do not have enough money to pay their lawyer, but who are too "rich" to be given one.
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I know you don't like to hear this, but I probably could if I wanted to.
It doesn't work like that in Belgium for healthcare, but it does for legal advice. This means that people with no or almost no income can retain a lawyer for free, while people who work will have to carry the full burden. This sounds great in theory to make sure everyone gets adequate legal advice. In reality it can ruin people who have worked their entire lives. People who really do not have enough money to pay their lawyer, but who are too "rich" to be given one.
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I know you don't like to hear this, but I probably could if I wanted to.
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