health insurance

Dannion Brinkley, the world’s most famous near death survivor (who strongly supports hospice work) once made the statement that, “In the United States we torture our old people to death” (subscribers can still listen to this extraordinary Dreamland show). This means the cost savings from rationing health care may come from “procedures” that are currently provided at the end of life, which are neither wanted nor useful, but provided out of habit, as a result of financial incentives, or through our failure to accept that death is a natural end to life.
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Are they really that bad? – Hospital Emergency Rooms increasingly seem crowded and chaotic. George Bush suggested that if you didn’t have health insurance, you could always go to an emergency room, so most people assume that’s the reason for the long waits three, but it turns out that primary care (non-urgent patients with nagging colds, flu or aches) are NOT what is causing this overcrowding.

Researcher Andre Maddison wasn’t sure what was causing the problem in Canada, where the situation is also endemic, so he decided to find out. He says, “I started with the view that due to a shortage of family doctors, people are going to emergency departments and overcrowding them. But in reality, why they are overcrowded wasn’t known.”
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