On another journal, I just saw a post from someone who recently moved to California from outside the US and has a chronic, non-behavioural, medical condition which, if not treated multiple times daily, will kill him/her within a matter of weeks, if not sooner. S/he is basically uninsurable by normal means and has been told that an application for the CA state high-risk insurance pool will take a minimum of 3-4 months to be approved, possibly longer. If s/he can come up with the money to buy medications out of pocket to survive that long, of course.
By most accounts, the US spends at least twice as much on health care per capita as the rest of the industrialized world, yet we somehow rank near the bottom on many indicators of its quality, even for those who are able to get it at all.
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Date: 2008-07-18 02:53 am (UTC)By most accounts, the US spends at least twice as much on health care per capita as the rest of the industrialized world, yet we somehow rank near the bottom on many indicators of its quality, even for those who are able to get it at all.