positives

[bhop]

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what are some positive aspects of the US health care system?

 

[colbgw02]

we have a very high standard of care, if you have enough money or really good insurance.

there are only a handful of places in the world that would spend tens of thousands of dollars on a 23 week EGA baby or that would dialyze an 85 year old.

 

[Wallachia]

-as a patient, you can attempt to litigate medical injury
-advanced technology in the most remote places in the country
-board certification/stringent medical licensing processes/hospital licensing
-ultraspecialists for rare diseases

 

[Miami_med]

The fastest access to complex care in the world. We measure our waits in hours, not in months like many of our neighbors.

 

[NonTradMed]

If you have enough money, you can get the best of everything and quickly.

 

[flighterdoc]

If you have enough money, you can get the best of everything and quickly.

Well, not everything. I know of a few 'ultra-wealthy' who have travelled to England for organ transplants that they didn't qualify for in the US (one in particular is a heart transplant recipient who was 80 when he got it). A private hospital in England for a few weeks until a donor turned up, and he was back home in the US a few weeks after that.


OTOH, look at all the people who got 'questionable' liver transplants...Larry Hagman, for one.

 

[NonTradMed]

Well, not everything. I know of a few 'ultra-wealthy' who have travelled to England for organ transplants that they didn't qualify for in the US (one in particular is a heart transplant recipient who was 80 when he got it). A private hospital in England for a few weeks until a donor turned up, and he was back home in the US a few weeks after that.


OTOH, look at all the people who got 'questionable' liver transplants...Larry Hagman, for one.

Do you mean the organ donation system? Yeah, you can't pay your way to that (legally).

Was Larry Hagman an alcoholic and he needed a liver transplant? I vaguely remember some celebrity who got a new liver because he drank his previous one to death.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

Do you mean the organ donation system? Yeah, you can't pay your way to that (legally).

Was Larry Hagman an alcoholic and he needed a liver transplant? I vaguely remember some celebrity who got a new liver because he drank his previous one to death.

Mickey Mantle was one such celebrity. I believe he also died about a year after getting the liver transplant