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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (121330)	3/11/2010 11:37:33 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

KT, We have WAY more of the very best technology and super elite physicians and surgeons. The problem is that not everyone can afford it and some don't have access to it. There's a healthcare gap between what guys like me can get and what the bottom of the economic scale can get. When I had ringing in my ears, I had access to a top GP, who sent me to a top ENT, who performed a wide array of tests and eventually sent me for an MRI that found a tumor. He then sent me to the one of the best surgeons on earth (if not the best) to have it removed and I got a result that is in the top 1% of all such surgeries (all within a couple of months). Quite honestly, I've been in contact with 100s of people (many outside the US) with the same tumor. If you knew what the typical patient has to deal with post surgery compared to me it would horrify you. It surely horrifies me. But some of the truly worst cases are among people I've made contact with from overseas. They go undiagnosed, have to wait for treatment while the tumor is growing, don't have as many treatment or surgery options because the surgeons aren't as skilled or they don't have the latest equipment, and get piss poor results. This is true of many ailments. At the top, there is no comparison, but in the US the people at the bottom get piss poor health care.