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Originally Posted by curves2000
We could also look at the draining of resources amongst certain people and how to better deal with their array of conditions. A family friend run's 2 different ICU's at 2 hospitals in Edmonton. Has an array of regular patients who are in and out of ICU for drug abuse, society decline, violence and more. Literally there are a mountain of people in Alberta who are considered "million dollar patients" for the amount of time they spend in ICU, which is just over $1 million a year per bed. How much of a resource drain can SOME people be across the board while other people's healthcare get's rationed? Lot's of discussion to be hand for the people in power.
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I don't think you are arguing otherwise but if those aren't healthcare issues they are definitely societal issues that need reckoning and all ultimately come out of the same master pot- the solutions aren't easy and I suppose both sides politically feel like they know the best way out- I wish I did!
it's a tough situation in general (I'm not saying anything particularly novel here) that often the performance of a 'healthcare' system gets graded or judged as much as the strength of the society itself