London Caller SHREDS US Healthcare System

Skype number a foreign call I think I don't know where you called from who's this where you calling from hi Sam how's it going it's Matthew calling here from London how are you Matthew from London I'm well how are you good the last time we spoke I spoke to you in the Mickey I talked about the gross numbers of infections versus recorded infections and I'm sadly been predicted right so in the UK we sort of totalling around about 45,000 casualties from kovat but the the excess deaths which is basically how many people died for the period this year compared to an average of the last three years or whatever whatever average you want to put it out - it is about 65,000 over and above what we'd normally have so that's something people should be keeping an eye out on for the states and unfortunately the the real number is much higher than the total because you know people die of a heart attack because they're scared to go to the hospital right right and you know sadly in this country that is well I mean the they're they're afraid to go to the hospital and that is I mean you know I don't know how you make that assessment right I mean I you know that is it's a function of kovat but people say it's an argument as to why we should pretend like it doesn't exist but then you would have more I mean that's that's the people in this country there are people in this country I don't know if it's the same in in in England but there are people in this country who will cite what you just cited as a reason why we should not take this pandemic seriously well that that's nonsense I mean I can speak I could if you don't mind me speaking to that just a little bit my lived experience working working in a hospital briefly but but also just talked about free healthcare very very quickly please do so and basically I I was forced to leave a horrible job in the sales sector and I worked a very short term contract in a hospital and what if one of the things we did was organize porters and like a call for EMTs so then when doctors run to someone having a heart attack there's there's another person who runs with like an oxygen bottle you know a porter and then if the person needs blood or they you know they need some kind of adrenaline or whatever it is then so that in nurse doesn't have to run off and get it a porter will always attend every cardiac arrest or stroke or whatever and I was shocked by the amount of people that would have strokes or heart attacks like at the reception which was where we were sitting or just just passed or like sitting in the coffee shop nearby but it's not really that strange if you think about it because people in hospital tend to be unwell and also older and and who has more heart attacks than old people or their spouses so you know people go to hospital often they feeling a bit peaky and then the efforts you know they can't put their finger on it no one thinks I'm about to have a stroke or I'm about to have a heart attack and sometimes just the effort of walking from their car to the A&E triggers the heart attack that was kind of coming if you see what I'm saying yes so there's definitely this thing of if people are not acting on those instincts and going to hospital then it will just be higher because again you wouldn't want to have a heart attack but the one place you would want to have it besides in the A&E it is 50 yards or 150 yards away from the A&E right you know in terms of response times so and obviously it's complicated in the u.s. because you know you have the Bill of navitat burn or you're having a panic attack or something like that then that you know you do have a problem I you know I wish there was a way that we could actually make that assessment all right I don't know that there's a way you could actually study that but I think you know well certainly our surveys suggest that people definitely put off you know regular healthcare in this country because of cost and we just don't know how many people died simply because not just that there you know we know the figures of people that died because they don't have any health insurance insurance period but we don't really know how many people die because they opted to not go to the hospital because they would wrap their believe it's not serious because they don't want to pay the price to go find out I mean that the dynamic and and here's what's even sicker about the right wing talking points for why we shouldn't have free at the point of service health care because patients need to function as consumers and so they need to basically make if they know how much stuff costs they will be reluctant to seek out those procedures or that type of care and they actually see that was a benefit it's insane appreciate the call um can I can I can I talk a little bit more about very quickly just quickly yes please okay so and when my daughter was born in the UK she immediately had health problems and she was in neonatal intensive care for three weeks top-notch care so to give you an idea not all hospitals in the UK this good but to give you an idea the staff ratio is there's four children per ward in this high intensive care there's one nurse for every two children but actually there's more than that because there's nurses also monitoring like external banks of monitors of heart rate signs and things like that when you have a child in that facility you get free lunches and free suppers because they found better outcomes from not having to have the parents go off-site in terms of like bonding with the baby and coming back to the hospital everything else and when they discharged us so she's four now I can tell you we've had full genetic screening on the NHS which is the free public health care system here in the UK which I pay for through my taxes to give you an idea for genetic screening a genetic specialist she's had something like the order of three specialist appointments every year since she was born for various aspects of what happened to her because the final diagnosis has never come out and so they're they're constantly like every six months to a year they reassess certain things that they worried about based on that small things they found in her genome which might be prison in the entire population but someone who didn't have that experience at birth would never come up anyway trying to say is all of that I have paid not a single extra cost ever she's got asthma as well or undiagnosed childhood asthma suspected the prescriptions for that are free Wow everything is free or in fact it's not free it's paid for by taxes correct and it the NHS has problems but it is such an efficient system I can tell you I've worked I've lived in under an insurance-based system it's not as grotesque as the u.s. in South Africa which is where I'm from because there are there is a bit of consumer protection but the difference is is that you know when you go for a dental treatment they say well a root canal should only cost you know $400 or whatever the case may be but the minimum you can get from any kind of dentist that's worth a salt is $2,000 so this is what this is what happens under a system where the the things are not controlled appreciate the car I mean it's also a little bit it's like talking to someone from outer space what you didn't pay anything for that what kind of action are you from are you from the future I hope

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Published: Fri Jul 03 2020