We have a socialist-communist system of distributing medical care. Instead of letting people hire their own physicians and pay them, no one pays his own medical bills. Instead, there's a third party payment system. It is a communist system and it has a communist result. Despite this, we've had numerous miracles in medical science. From the discovery of penicillin, to new surgical techniques, to MRIs and CAT scans, the last 30 or 40 years have been a period of miraculous change in medical science. On the other hand, we've seen costs skyrocket.
Nobody is happy: physicians don't like it, patients don't like it. Why? Because none of them are responsible for themselves. You no longer have a situation in which a patient chooses a physician, receives a service, gets charged, and pays for it. There is no direct relation between the patient and the physician. The physician is an employee of an insurance company or an employee of the government. Today, a third party pays the bills. As a result, no one who visits the doctor asks what the charge is going to be, somebody else is going to take care of that. The end result is third party payment and, worst of all, third party treatment.
When you visit a Greek State hospital, you better bring your own soap with you, in case you have to got to the toilet! Greek State hospitals are out of soap! Health Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou met with representatives of hospital suppliers and various pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies yesterday but the two sides were not able to reach an agreement on how a six-billion euro debt, which stretches back several years, will be settled.
Pharmacide is the pharmaceutical industry's self-destructive effort to loot America and Fourth Reich(EU). Pharmaceutical industry executives are frequently accused of greedily putting profits before patients, as if drug companies could profit by means other than serving patients. This accusation would be unjust if these executives were after profits. Unfortunately, however, today's pharmaceutical executives are not after profits. They are after loot. They seek to gain, through legislation, money coercively taken by the government from citizens. But, unbeknownst to these executives, their looting is self-destructive. In fact, by aiding and abetting the government in its violation of individual rights, the pharmaceutical industry is committing suicide.
Xenogiannakopoulou now adopts an aggressive stance with the suppliers, indicating that they had been overcharging for many of their products, including soap! She declares the party in the health sector is over. Xenogiannakopoulou calls on the suppliers to assume their responsibilities, but she is also doing what she can to ensure that hospitals continue to function normally. The longer the dispute drags on, the more state hospitals will suffer, as many are already desperately short of supplies, including soap, and unable to carry out basic services such as CAT scans and blood tests. Hospitals including Asklepeio, Evangelismos, and Tzaneio have been borrowing basic stuff, such as soap, to keep going.
Dimitris Varnavas, president of the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors' Unions(OENGE), points out the coming week will be exceptionally crucial for the health system, as hospitals cannot offer basic services because of a lack of things like surgical gloves surgical thread, and soap. It is certain that lives will be lost in the coming days. Failure to pay doctors overtime means that fewer hospitals are filling their onduty slots. The Attiko Hospital in Athens is due to be on duty today but will only be accepting emergency cases. Doctors at the Geniko Kratiko in Nikaia have not been working extra shifts for the last month.
Venitis points out Mustang Ranch, the most profitable brothel in America, went belly up after Uncle Sam took over. Government should put the people back in charge of healthcare by expanding healthcare tax credits and deductions, increasing access to Health Savings Accounts, respecting privacy and the doctor-patient relationship. Politicizing and bureaucratizing of healthcare increases costs and reduces quality.
Mustang Ranch management is present in all socialized healthcare, especially IKA, the socialized healthcare of Greece, the most corrupt country on Earth. IKA grabs huge fees from the insured, but provides nothing in return! To get a health treatment from IKA, you have to suffer infinite length queues. To get any reasonable health service, you have to give huge kickbacks to physicians and staff. No kickback means no service, it's as simple as that! Now Obama plans to bring the horror of IKA to America! God save us from IKA!
IKA's horrible service gives you hypertension! Hypertension is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure is elevated. 20% of people are affected by hypertension. Persistent hypertension is one of the risk factors for strokes, heart attacks, heart failure, arterial aneurysm, and chronic kidney disease. Uncle Sam recommends DASH(Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) for hypertension. DASH is a diet that limits intake of salt, sugar, and red meats, and encourages the consumption of whole grains, fish, poultry, fruits, and vegetables.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out Greeks, robbed at gunpoint by Graecokleptocrats, survive by schemes, fraud, sinecures, and mugging each other. Rousfeti means expensive political favors, which pervade everything from hiring public employees to property deals. Tax evaders and law breakers receive visits from officials eager to collect kickbacks. In return for leaving the guilty untouched, officials receive fakelaki, envelope containing bribe in cash. The standard rate for kickbacks is 10% of the forfeited penalty. Desperate Greeks now pray for a new dictatorship! Allons enfants de la Grece!
Venitis notes that Gregory means fast in Greek. Gregory's tax is fakelaki for fast service. Without it, you will wait for ever! All Athenians know very well that without Gregory they will have to wait many months before a state IKA physician could see them. If you want a surgery, you will have to give the IKA surgeon at least 5,000 euros kickback, that beloved Gregory! The surgeon would ask you how is Gregory. If you do not present Gregory, you will have to come back to IKA months later to answer the same question. If Gregory is not fat enough, the IKA surgeon might pseudoforget his scissors inside you! Allons enfants de la Grece!
You should be free to search out the best, most affordable services from doctors, nurses and other producers, who are free to offer and charge for them. There should be no government restrictions on the supply of medical professionals via licensing laws — just laws prohibiting medical fraud and malpractice. For example, a nurse trained in healing minor broken bones is free to start her own practice for lower-income customers. There are no "free" health care programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, or government-imposed collective "insurance" plans to artificially drive up costs.
The government should not mandate that employers offer health insurance. Instead, individuals should pay for their own care, perhaps through a combination of direct payment for anticipated expenses and the purchase of catastrophic insurance for high, unanticipated expenses — or some yet undreamed of, superior solution the market comes up with. The result of a real market in medicine would be the same as in the market for computers: over time the same dollar would buy better and better products and services.
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