Re: OT: Health care in other countries
- From: bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:26:22 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 24, 10:30 pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:09:52 +0000, Nemo
<P...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
I've heard that about 15% of Americans have no health cover
(though an American doctor friend tells me Medicare... or is it
Medicaid... will pay for basics but woe betide you if you turn out to
have any assets).
We are taxed minimally compared to Europeons, because you _are_
expected to pay if you have "assets".
Europe operates on the premise that the general population is ignorant
and must have all decisions made for it by the politically elite.
I can't say that I've noticed any such an attitude in any of the
political elite that I've run into, and the level of ignorance that
krw and Jim manage to exhibit hasn't been visible in my friends and co-
workers in the U.K. or the Netherlands. Europe hasn't been short of
political philosophers - Marx, Engels and the Fabian Society come to
mind - and the various political philosophies do have a lot of popular
support in the form of grass-roots politcal support for the major
political parties
This last election proves that the USA has almost caught up to Europe
in pure ignorance level ;-(
A very strange way of looking at an election where a much smarter, and
more sophisticated candidate got a definite majority over the dimmer
candidtate, who was stuck with standing for the Republican party who'd
just spend eight years making a mess of the country because they
didn't know what thye were doing.
[snip]
One of my family went to the USA to work with animals recently. They got
a rabies shot before going. It cost £90 (maybe $120?). Apparently it
would have cost $1000 in the USA.
Sounds like you got BS'd. Humans only get a rabies series of shots if
bitten by a suspected rabid animal.
If you are planning on working with animals that might carry rabies
you are likely to get three single shots of killed virus vaccine to
stimulate your immune system to produce anti-bodies
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-rabies.pdf
If you get bitten by a potentially rabid animal and you haven't had a
protective vaccination against rabies, you will get five - much larger
- shots of vaccine (into the stomach, where there's space for all the
fluid) as well as a shot of rabies immunoglobulin (basically raabies
anti-bodies).
It's a much bigger deal, and correspondingly more expensive. Jim's as
reliably out of touch with reality as ever.
--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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