Friday, May 31, 2013
our aging population
Our population is aging they need more healthcare and being taken care of is a very important thing that we should be doing. the article as good as it gets was talking about how good the healthcare was in the Netherlands compared to us. The costs are far cheaper than our healthcare and they have a seventy percent satisfaction rating for their healthcare. We only have a forty percent satisfaction rating and the costs are so expensive for operations and medications. They also talked about having home care workers instead of going to the doctor or hospital. I found these stats and information very interesting and useful. Hopefully we can learn from the Netherlands and take care of our elderly because we will be becoming that age as well hoping that we are getting take care of. Healthcare is so very important without healthcare we would have a lot of problems with no ways to solve those problems. The good thing about us is there's not much of a wait to get treatment whereas other places have more of wait times, but we pay the price for that though. They said a pacemaker operation in the Netherlands cost five thousand compared to us in the U.S. we pay fifteen to twenty thousand just for the pacemaker and forty thousand all together with the operation. Things are getting so expensive nowadays. Thank you for listening to my spiel.
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Reading this article was shocking to me, I just can't understand how in other countries there healthcare is so much better than our in the United States. I for some reason or other I thought the United States has the best of everything but obviously that is not true. I knew that procedures are very expensive but to know for a fact that in other place the same procedures are about ten thousand dollars cheaper is just shocking to me when innocent human being are in need of these procedures to save their lives, this is so wrong. Something definitely has to change in our healthcare system because what people with the power to do something should know is that what they are doing now is obviously not okay. This makes me very upset!
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