the us base hospital in frankfurt i went to sucked so bad. i had a serious and painful infection and barely walk in there on a saturday morning and was just in nutso pain and they told me to come back monday because it wasn't really an emergency and they didn't do surgery on weekends. this was after waiting a few hours (no exaggeration) in a waiting room with _no_ other people, then filling out twenty pages of forms and then waiting another hour just so they could tell me to come back monday. there was seriously nobody there, i don't know what was going on there but it was the stupidest hospital experience i've had. i went from there straight to the german hospital and had the best hospital experience i've had.
anyway, i think the price tag is fine especially when i think there would be all kinds of other auxillary benefits for society. i think people not having to worry about getting sick and being screwed would have a really nice general effect on society. i don't know how to prove that.
i get confused about the price tag. most of my healthcare costs go to paying towards the chance i might have a serious accident that i most likely will never have. i would prefer it if that money could go towards more preventative general care but i can't get that preventative care because i can't risk going without the insurance against catastrophy. i'd be curious to know how much insurance payments go 'unused' to get an idea of costs. like how many people paying a couple hundred bucks a month insurance for years and years never use any benefits? where does that money go? how does the total amount of insurance paid by all people in this country line up with the total cost of healthcare?
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Date: 2005-04-13 06:25 pm (UTC)anyway, i think the price tag is fine especially when i think there would be all kinds of other auxillary benefits for society. i think people not having to worry about getting sick and being screwed would have a really nice general effect on society. i don't know how to prove that.
i get confused about the price tag. most of my healthcare costs go to paying towards the chance i might have a serious accident that i most likely will never have. i would prefer it if that money could go towards more preventative general care but i can't get that preventative care because i can't risk going without the insurance against catastrophy. i'd be curious to know how much insurance payments go 'unused' to get an idea of costs. like how many people paying a couple hundred bucks a month insurance for years and years never use any benefits? where does that money go? how does the total amount of insurance paid by all people in this country line up with the total cost of healthcare?