Baby on the way - How to pay for healthcare

[Clover]

I answered this in pm. Not necessary to post.

 

[YusufNoor]

Most people think that these pharm companies are thieves.. well unless you have worked in research and know what goes into research, isolation of compounds, phases of trials, marketing and development, then you'd actually understand, that, that barely covers the company's costs and believe it or not if you understood how much red tape and politics, you'd actually understand why there are such things as outbreaks of the flu..
there are only two companies in the U.S that manufacture vaccines, and when hassled about every nook and cranny from lay people (for instance the hype about autism and MMR) then they'd rather simply cut their losses and move on..

http://memes.org/adhd-autism-impact-22-000-000-us-kids-bush-governor-mitch-daniels-homeland-security-exempts-eli-lill

or if you have some rich celebrity funding some cause, then you're lucky some funding goes into it.. do you ever wonder why there is still no Malaria vaccine in the world? when you have a vaccine for something as stupid as Lyme? check the demographics and funding and think about it a little...

try this, google, in sets:

+eli lilly +ig farben

+prescott bush +eli lilly

+george h w bush + eli lilly

+the quayles + eli lilly

+eli lilly +the patriot act

or maybe even:

+eli lilly +methadone [oops, i meant adolphine...]

:wa:

 

[noorseeker]

livinh in the uk, were fortuanate for the nhs, national health service,, which is pretty much free.

 

[جوري]

try this, google, in sets:

+eli lilly +ig farben

+prescott bush +eli lilly

+george h w bush + eli lilly

+the quayles + eli lilly

+eli lilly +the patriot act

or maybe even:

+eli lilly +methadone [oops, i meant adolphine...]

:wa:

I know that there is a really evil side to the pharm co. but the majority of people who work there in research are under paid, I am not talking about the big dogs or drug pushers.. I know many Muslims who work in drug research and development, and many times they have to fund their own or get someone to fund their research before they can get a pharm co. to take notice or sponsor them, give them a patent or allow for clinical trials.. but there really is alot involved and the material used itself isn't cheap.. some of the polymerases used in research can run a few hundred for a few microliters thus they have to makeup for their losses somehow..

Health care isn't cheap whether socialized or otherwise.. it has to be funded somehow...
I have lived in England for a couple of yrs, and it is true it is practically free, but not only are you not getting excellent health care it still comes out of your tax money in some form.. so folks are paying for it from their tax money whether or not they use it...

Perhaps the motivation for health care in the U.S is the litigations involved.. but I'd rather have even that as an impetus to have a thorough checkup.. than go to some doctor and have him/her assess based on age and history alone whether or not my situation merits a serious workup.

I was sick a few times in England.. one that merited that I be hospitalized for an anaphylactic shock and can only tell you that the meds they used on me would have landed someone here in the U.S in the slammer.. a second time I visited a GP, and all she did prescribe me a med based on history alone, I guarantee if I were a guy and came in with the exact same case history I'd have gotten a different med and a different diagnosis-- I asked her if she were going to run any sort of workup, then she took my blood pressure...
fact is most ailments prodromal period come in with the exact same thing..
there is malaise, and fever and shortness of breath and tachycardia.. anything from community acquired Pneumonia to a heart attack to agoraphobia can present as such.. I think I'd want more than my BP takes for an assessment ..

anyhow, that is a topic within a topic.. and perhaps I am biased because I see it from the other side?