Comments on: The Health Care Trojan Horse http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_health_care.html Dispatches from a Small Business Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Macgrath http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_health_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-2990 Macgrath Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:50:14 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/the_health_care.html #comment-2990 <p>“In the case of emergency angioplasty, for hospitals it seems that it’s not just how many you do, but how used to doing them you are,” says lead author Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., MPH, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School, researcher at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and member of the U-M Cardiovascular Center. “The overall commitment to doing emergency angioplasties, and the protocols and staffing that come out of that commitment, appear to be key.” The bottom line for anyone having a heart attack, he adds, is still to call 911 and let the emergency medical staff decide which hospital to choose.</p> “In the case of emergency angioplasty, for hospitals it seems that it’s not just how many you do, but how used to doing them you are,” says lead author Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., MPH, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School, researcher at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and member of the U-M Cardiovascular Center. “The overall commitment to doing emergency angioplasties, and the protocols and staffing that come out of that commitment, appear to be key.” The bottom line for anyone having a heart attack, he adds, is still to call 911 and let the emergency medical staff decide which hospital to choose.

]]> By: Blue Cross of California http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_health_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-2989 Blue Cross of California Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:01:20 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/the_health_care.html #comment-2989 <p>Wow the trojan healthcare system sounds like a great idea. I hope it can improve health care.</p> Wow the trojan healthcare system sounds like a great idea. I hope it can improve health care.

]]> By: luispedro http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_health_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-2988 luispedro Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:09:01 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/the_health_care.html #comment-2988 <p>What Europeans with socialized medical arrangements?</p> <p>There are at least two major models in Europe, the British one (centrally-planned) used in Canada too [unfortunately, Portugal as well] where things mostly suck (waiting lists, bad service resulting in most people mixing the public system with private care since you can't rely on the public system alone [this leads to dual systems based on paying potential, yes]). Then there are the French/Dutch models which are market-based. The state (through a series of middle-men) does take care of most bills, but you get to choose your own doctor/hospital who are mostly private who get paid according to services provided. I think the French system is closer to the US system than the British one.</p> <p>I don't see anything contradicting economic sense: market-based systems work better<br /> .<br /> It's the rhetoric which confuses the facts on the ground (French people don't like me complimenting them on their liberal health system, but it is a liberal system ["liberal" as in "free market"]).</p> What Europeans with socialized medical arrangements?

There are at least two major models in Europe, the British one (centrally-planned) used in Canada too [unfortunately, Portugal as well] where things mostly suck (waiting lists, bad service resulting in most people mixing the public system with private care since you can’t rely on the public system alone [this leads to dual systems based on paying potential, yes]). Then there are the French/Dutch models which are market-based. The state (through a series of middle-men) does take care of most bills, but you get to choose your own doctor/hospital who are mostly private who get paid according to services provided. I think the French system is closer to the US system than the British one.

I don’t see anything contradicting economic sense: market-based systems work better
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It’s the rhetoric which confuses the facts on the ground (French people don’t like me complimenting them on their liberal health system, but it is a liberal system ["liberal" as in "free market"]).

]]> By: Duane Gran http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_health_care.html/comment-page-1#comment-2987 Duane Gran Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:37:02 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/the_health_care.html #comment-2987 <p>I find it curious that the American private health care system, which places more of the health care burden on the individual with poor health, doesn't result in better health choices among Americans. There are undoubtedly multiple factors at play, but it is runs contrary to free market predictions when Europeans in socialized medical arrangements, on average, make better choices about their health. Possibly an economist could make some sense of this oddity.</p> I find it curious that the American private health care system, which places more of the health care burden on the individual with poor health, doesn’t result in better health choices among Americans. There are undoubtedly multiple factors at play, but it is runs contrary to free market predictions when Europeans in socialized medical arrangements, on average, make better choices about their health. Possibly an economist could make some sense of this oddity.

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