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Not to be political...but the elephant in the room...health care reform
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 349837" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The experience we've had in Australia has been very bumpy. In the early days our national health system was a huge financial drain on the country and also subject to being abused by various health professionals who saw it as a way to make a lot of money, fast. That was in the mid-70s. </p><p></p><p>Since then, there has been a lot of improvement with computerised systems, databases, the internet - all working together so information is cross-checked and those ripping off the system now WILL get caught, if not now then later, when the information percolates trough to officials.</p><p></p><p>It's a bit like athletes competing at Olympic levels, who have to give samples all the time and those samples are now kept. If at some future stage tests improve and old samples get re-tested to see if way back when, Athlete A was using a performance enhancing substance which was illegal at that time but not able to be tested for then - they will be found out.</p><p></p><p>The way our system works now is still not perfect, but it is improving all the time. And the amount our government spends on health care per head, is still way down. We're a smaller country, population-wise. This should make it more difficult for us to administer, we don't have economies of scale to help us. But our system is currently the best it has ever been, in terms of services provided as well as scrutiny of providers to minimise abuse of the system.</p><p></p><p>I'm also impressed with everybody's careful discussion of this issue as apolitically as possible. I think it's too important to share ideas and information, to spoil with political point-scoring.</p><p></p><p>We've been watching this issue closely from Australia and hoping that something can be done, somehow, to improve your health system. Not sure if Johnson would have been able to put anything workable in place back then - you are a BIG country. But now, you can pick our brains, plus the brains of other countries with similar systems, take what will work, discard the rubbish, learn from our mistakes in our country - and maybe come up with something that will work best for your people in your country.</p><p></p><p>Well done, everybody!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 349837, member: 1991"] The experience we've had in Australia has been very bumpy. In the early days our national health system was a huge financial drain on the country and also subject to being abused by various health professionals who saw it as a way to make a lot of money, fast. That was in the mid-70s. Since then, there has been a lot of improvement with computerised systems, databases, the internet - all working together so information is cross-checked and those ripping off the system now WILL get caught, if not now then later, when the information percolates trough to officials. It's a bit like athletes competing at Olympic levels, who have to give samples all the time and those samples are now kept. If at some future stage tests improve and old samples get re-tested to see if way back when, Athlete A was using a performance enhancing substance which was illegal at that time but not able to be tested for then - they will be found out. The way our system works now is still not perfect, but it is improving all the time. And the amount our government spends on health care per head, is still way down. We're a smaller country, population-wise. This should make it more difficult for us to administer, we don't have economies of scale to help us. But our system is currently the best it has ever been, in terms of services provided as well as scrutiny of providers to minimise abuse of the system. I'm also impressed with everybody's careful discussion of this issue as apolitically as possible. I think it's too important to share ideas and information, to spoil with political point-scoring. We've been watching this issue closely from Australia and hoping that something can be done, somehow, to improve your health system. Not sure if Johnson would have been able to put anything workable in place back then - you are a BIG country. But now, you can pick our brains, plus the brains of other countries with similar systems, take what will work, discard the rubbish, learn from our mistakes in our country - and maybe come up with something that will work best for your people in your country. Well done, everybody! Marg [/QUOTE]
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