Nationalized Health Care in 2 weeks? Rise up people!

[LoBelly]

Originally Posted by RAZOR

Nationalized health care will be the nightmare, our system needs help but not the governments solution. My son in law is a doctor and knows from experience

.... In Australia he had a patient that needed a treatment (forgive my non technical jargon) on a heart/lung machine, their was one in all of Queensland which is five tines the size of California, where as back in the states in the heart department of his hospital there were over 30 of the same machine, bottom line was the treatment his patient needed was not available, but here it would have been routine.
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Hello Razor

Its an interesting comparison

Although the land size of Queensland is (almost) 5x that of California (424,000 sq.km v 1,853,000 sq.km) the Population comparison is probably more relevant.

Queensland Aust: 4,048,467 http://www.oesr.qld.gov.au/queenslan...er/index.shtml

California US: 36,756,666 http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06000.html

The population of California is greater than the whole of the Australia (about 22 million) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population

Population levels and population density has a dramatic effect on the revenue base that medical services can be funded from - whether public or private.

It may be true that the health care available in Queensland (or any part of Australia) is below that available in the US however the main arguement is how much care you (the population) get for your $.

LoBelly