http://www.asiahealthcareblog.com/2009/09/18/chinas-healthcare-challenge/ Exploring the intersection of investment and development, in Asia Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:37:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.asiahealthcareblog.com/2009/09/18/chinas-healthcare-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-3351 Maguire Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:05:11 +0000 http://www.asiahealthcareblog.com/?p=1456#comment-3351 The US is currently sitting in a similar boat. Though it may appear that there is a greater percent of of the population receiving coverage here than in China, the struggle is still the same for those who go without. How does the system take care of those who can't afford it? It doesn't! Conservatives can complain all day long about how horrible it is that the poor get such wonderful care and don't spend a dime, but do they? If they were able to receive basic care at points in their life when they didn't require urgent care, they may not tax they system at all. Adopting the idea of preventative medicine for all is very difficult in a money driven society. The immediate thought is self preservation. Well how is going to benefit me? Well if everyone payed into a system that was designed to help them make better life choices and regulate conditions at an early onset, then there would be less people straining the system in the long run. Here is an article written by a panel of doctors, all of whom sit on different sides of the US Health Care debate, that offers some very eye opening perspectives toward the future of Health Care. <a href="http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107" target="_blank">http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sect...</a> The US is currently sitting in a similar boat. Though it may appear that there is a greater percent of of the population receiving coverage here than in China, the struggle is still the same for those who go without. How does the system take care of those who can't afford it? It doesn't! Conservatives can complain all day long about how horrible it is that the poor get such wonderful care and don't spend a dime, but do they? If they were able to receive basic care at points in their life when they didn't require urgent care, they may not tax they system at all.
Adopting the idea of preventative medicine for all is very difficult in a money driven society. The immediate thought is self preservation. Well how is going to benefit me? Well if everyone payed into a system that was designed to help them make better life choices and regulate conditions at an early onset, then there would be less people straining the system in the long run.
Here is an article written by a panel of doctors, all of whom sit on different sides of the US Health Care debate, that offers some very eye opening perspectives toward the future of Health Care. http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sect…

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