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Mar 29, 2020
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BYU '80
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Wow don’t know where to start to address this post
Comparing healthcare to consumer electronics?
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A lot of Truth in this reader comment from another forum
Busiturtle
3/28/20 6:45am
What are the fundamental differences between how our fire fighting system is
Uncle Bluto
3/28/20 6:50am
Me thinks you don’t understand why the healthcare system isn’t/wasn’t ready
Littlerich
3/28/20 6:51am
Yep, completely applicable comparison. So you'd have hospitals build huge
slowhiteguy
3/28/20 6:55am
Don't forget all the extra Drs and nurses on staff waiting for the surge
Tare
3/28/20 6:57am
Absolutely, we should be ready to handle a once in a 100 years illness.
Jacksonian76
3/28/20 8:16am
Hospitals operate on thin margins and you expect them
BYU '80
3/28/20 9:25am
All this happened at a time when hospitals and other
KingDave
3/28/20 9:53am
Would it costmore than shutting down the economy for months on end?
Jacksonian76
3/28/20 9:54am
It wouldn’t be worth it
KingDave
3/28/20 10:10am
The last global depression led right into WW2.
Jacksonian76
3/28/20 10:31am
Wow don’t know where to start to address this post
BYU '80
3/29/20 2:35am
My point is the cost of every other technology, even cutting
Jacksonian76
3/29/20 7:49am
Busiturtle advocating for socialized medicine? Strange times indeed.
Tare
3/28/20 6:55am
Cause the VA health system is so amazing.
slowhiteguy
3/28/20 7:00am
You have to pay for VA healthcare unless you incurred a severe medical issue
Lieutenant America
3/28/20 7:48pm
Yeah, and while we’ve got the pitchforks out, how about TP manufacturers!!
NOCAL_YFAN
3/28/20 7:07am
Well excrement makers obviously stepped up production.
CougarThug
3/28/20 9:09am
Actually TP supply matches demand very well.
CougarThug
3/28/20 9:14am
Example: Hospital has 50 ventilators. 400 people need them at once. 350 dead.
dave
3/28/20 7:27am
Actually, for urban areas the answer is yes.
Busiturtle
3/28/20 7:33am
Talk, talk, talk, and no actual preparation
Busiturtle
3/28/20 7:44am
You gonna pay for that? Ever priced those things out?
dave
3/28/20 9:48am
If you are advocating socialized medicine, you have not seen it first hand.
coolblue
3/28/20 7:33am
I think this is more of a military need right now. We give 600 billion a year
tawillin
3/28/20 7:34am
Nuke SARS COV 2!!!
Lieutenant America
3/28/20 8:34pm
Board name subtitle checks out
SingleStrapBackpack
3/28/20 7:40am
Agreed. Those dissenting voices do not understand that
Recipefordisaster
3/28/20 7:58am
Socialized medicine or not, there isn't a medical system in the world prepared
superdoo
3/28/20 8:24am
Great post
BYU '80
3/28/20 9:29am
Preach brother.
777
3/28/20 3:13pm
Stop being so logical, you might offend someone 😉
seacougar
3/28/20 7:07pm
South Korea handled it just fine
Zoobieman
3/29/20 3:10pm
Sorry, that's dumb.
CougarBuddy
3/28/20 8:57am
Please elaborate...
Recipefordisaster
3/28/20 9:01am
Healthcare system is more than emergency room/icu measures.
CougarBuddy
3/28/20 9:12am
I like this busiturtle person. The turtle calls it like it is!
TheWoodman
3/28/20 9:01am
Hard to ramp up a pandemic response when critical items like pharmaceuticals...
CougarThug
3/28/20 9:23am
Healthcare didn’t fail. The feds did
BYU '80
3/28/20 9:28am
I'm not sure the feds have failed yet either...
CougarBuddy
3/28/20 9:41am
Fair enough
BYU '80
3/29/20 2:38am
By this logic, every business person should have set aside enough $$ to cover this acute event and be ready for it.
Turnpike Lane
3/28/20 9:44am
You'll see big change in medical costs if Trump's rule for hospitals to show
gingi
3/28/20 9:48am
If medical costs go down then medical responsiveness will go down...
CougarBuddy
3/28/20 9:59am
And I believe the death rate of this pandemic in the us...
CougarBuddy
3/28/20 10:02am
Excellent points. Just concerned about purposeful concealment of prices.
gingi
3/28/20 11:28am
Sure. Just ask for the private fee schedule.
CougarBuddy
3/28/20 11:47am
Those fees are higher because of the purposefully concealed prices. They are goo
gingi
3/28/20 3:03pm
It’s true though most will just keep hammering home “our healthcare is broken”
BYU '80
3/29/20 2:40am
Hospitals have a Monopoly. They are money making machines.
Recipefordisaster
3/28/20 10:23pm
They operate on thin margins. Ask anyone that knows healthcare finance
BYU '80
3/29/20 2:42am
Not for profit organizations always operate on thin margins, they have to give
Jacksonian76
3/29/20 8:22am
Well you did not ask about my experience in the field.
Recipefordisaster
3/29/20 5:48pm
The fines for not doing it are small. Most won’t
BYU '80
3/29/20 2:39am
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The Brig
3/28/20 10:03am
The equivalent of this is if lots of random buildings
KingDave
3/28/20 10:19am
Wow. You really have no idea what you are talking about.
StalwartBraveTrue
3/29/20 11:22am
He thinks you are being that guy.
Jacksonian76
3/29/20 12:24pm
Your post has nothing to do with the OP. But thanks
StalwartBraveTrue
3/29/20 3:48pm
What is the one or the other choice? It's a tight rope we are walking
Jacksonian76
3/29/20 9:42pm
These things have happened before and will again.
StalwartBraveTrue
3/29/20 10:08pm
I am glad that we both now agree that it is not a myth that the elderly
Jacksonian76
3/29/20 10:52pm
There was never a disagreement on who bears the risk.
StalwartBraveTrue
3/29/20 11:37pm
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