tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post3264413776696854386..comments2023-10-18T00:03:31.222+10:00Comments on Stafford Ray: Getting your Mit’s on Public Health.Stafford Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-18956224468091543262012-05-23T05:22:30.807+10:002012-05-23T05:22:30.807+10:00I am happy with the health care our family gets......I am happy with the health care our family gets...momto8https://www.blogger.com/profile/13964950285763339907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-67777746271270543992012-05-22T23:06:42.771+10:002012-05-22T23:06:42.771+10:00Yes, US university costs are incredible. My Americ...Yes, US university costs are incredible. My American niece, a lawyer, married another young lawyer and they started married life with a combined student-loan debt equivalent to the cost of a house.Chartreusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05919069110736697400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-42394140720730244002012-05-22T18:13:53.899+10:002012-05-22T18:13:53.899+10:00Haha! I guess it was a problem, but once he gets p...Haha! I guess it was a problem, but once he gets past the 'strutting his stuff' stage, he might at least privately be glad not to have had to go through the pain!Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-12113877977002714722012-05-22T18:11:29.944+10:002012-05-22T18:11:29.944+10:00I guess that means you support public funding of c...I guess that means you support public funding of cosmetic surgery!Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-37041001400118319602012-05-22T18:07:39.873+10:002012-05-22T18:07:39.873+10:00I lime the Ulysses MC Club motto. "Grow old d...I lime the Ulysses MC Club motto. "Grow old disgracefully". I think you qualify.Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-78590821967234308502012-05-22T17:54:58.088+10:002012-05-22T17:54:58.088+10:00Dear Stafford,
My Mum, a student is Tasmania in t...Dear Stafford,<br /><br />My Mum, a student is Tasmania in the 60s attest to this amazing healthcare she received in Australia. When my brother was born, the doctor offered to do the circumcision after he was born too to avoid the pain in later years (My brother was not too happy about this back here in Malaysia as it was a coming of age rite to him when he was a teen - but that is a different matter altogether)<br /><br />In Malaysia it is not too bad now, affordable heatlhcare is okay if only the rich would stop complaining and really look around.<br /><br />Cheers, Stafford!ninotazizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06491437553562159354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-3812132757614845692012-05-22T11:38:39.772+10:002012-05-22T11:38:39.772+10:00The right wing so and so's always going on abo...The right wing so and so's always going on about socialism know absolutely nothing about political ideologies. Don't get me started - I am so tired of being called a socialist because I care about the environment and things like social justice. The fascists who keep calling me a socialist can bite me.<br /><br />My sister lives in the States and it cost her 25 grand to have a baby (there were complications.) She also needs to have her wisdom teeth out but it will cost around ten grand, so she just puts up with the pain. That sucks in anyone's book. We are extremely lucky in Australia to have the healthcare system we have. I would protest naked in the street to hold onto it if I had to (only partly joking - har har...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-34325538317590900522012-05-22T09:17:07.631+10:002012-05-22T09:17:07.631+10:00Returned to see what other readers had to say on t...Returned to see what other readers had to say on the topic .. realized 'continue to age' is the oxymoron of all time!Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16619199535376925989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-81181666152332846602012-05-22T07:29:48.580+10:002012-05-22T07:29:48.580+10:00Maybe it is a bit extreme to say, but it appears t...Maybe it is a bit extreme to say, but it appears to me that if one is sick, poor, homeless or long term unemployed in the USA, the only decent thing to do is to die!<br />Also, one wonders if there is a connection between the need to survive and succeed in any way one can, and the crime rate. <br />Here, indigenous males are vastly over represented in our jail populations. They are the people who find it hardest to 'make it' in mainstream society, so turn to crime for both income and relevance.<br />Now that our 'us and you' culture is entrenched, it is very difficult to turn around.Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-52445516543665609012012-05-22T07:20:26.085+10:002012-05-22T07:20:26.085+10:00You are right. Students here are subisidised, so t...You are right. Students here are subisidised, so the pressure to charge a lot because it cost a lot is lessened. The attitude that Medicine is a community responsibility, as is the training of doctors, seems to almost totally remove the greed factor.Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-37899598431694704082012-05-22T01:52:49.066+10:002012-05-22T01:52:49.066+10:00Great post Stafford- another issue is the cost of ...Great post Stafford- another issue is the cost of educating a doctor- they end up with enormous student loans-bet that doesn't happen in other countries.Kathe W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06781645436343424010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-76290697621905205502012-05-21T10:03:22.370+10:002012-05-21T10:03:22.370+10:00Excellent post, Stafford. My American relatives wh...Excellent post, Stafford. My American relatives who visit here are always amazed at our access to health services. And I agree with you about the incredible friendliness and helpfulness Americans extend to visitors who are strangers. Yet they vehemently resist extending the same hand to their own needy. That defies understanding.Chartreusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05919069110736697400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-79642691956788147732012-05-21T09:37:10.550+10:002012-05-21T09:37:10.550+10:00Marvelous post, Stafford. We of the more liberal ...Marvelous post, Stafford. We of the more liberal side feel as you do about the right wing crazies fighting so hard against Obama's health care program . . or anything else he proposes. I think it is a tribute to our failing educational system.Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-85746989819236060542012-05-21T09:05:28.988+10:002012-05-21T09:05:28.988+10:00... do you have room for one more citizen in the L...... do you have room for one more citizen in the Land of OZ? Maybe two? Sue is right about the state of affairs here in the US! I wish I didn't have to be concerned about medical care as I continue to age.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16619199535376925989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-42134968989610353292012-05-21T08:59:26.922+10:002012-05-21T08:59:26.922+10:00I'm working on that one, Sue. Just watch this ...I'm working on that one, Sue. Just watch this space!Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-68080322013997460842012-05-21T08:51:17.252+10:002012-05-21T08:51:17.252+10:00We're so well looked after here in Australia (...We're so well looked after here in Australia (though the conservatives tried to knock back medicare), not that you would think so listening to all the whinging about how bad things are. This is a great post Stafford - can't believe people still go on about the socialist bogey man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-73218225164980805932012-05-21T08:34:52.158+10:002012-05-21T08:34:52.158+10:00They will never get a health system like ours or t...They will never get a health system like ours or the UK or France because to do so would impact on the Medical Insurance gravy train. That's the real reason there's opposition to a national health scheme. Even those who pay insurance can have the treatment their doctor recommends vetoed by the insurers. It's all about the shareholders - again!<br />I don't remember, when I was growing up - well, really until the last 20 years or so - there being any mention of the stock exchange on the news. Now it's often the first thing mentioned.Sue Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864986500627496240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498398785015106016.post-36787064821763558762012-05-21T08:15:51.196+10:002012-05-21T08:15:51.196+10:00A blogging friend from the States often posts abou...A blogging friend from the States often posts about their Health Services and I shudder. I am the first to admit that our system is not perfect but we have so much to be thankful for with our NHS.<br /><br />(Glad that your daughter is keeping you in line!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com