Imagine the uproar if companies started demanding a non-smoking certificate for all their employee…
The question to ask is why does a patient cost so much? Is it incompetence? Corruption? Or both?
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I just sent a 35y old with severe c19 pneumonia to the hospital, sats in the 80ies
we’re doing that almost daily now btw
In Basel we just drive over the border to Germany to buy covid patients for cheaper
ICU personnel and also “Pfleger” are ALWAYS burnt out. It’s what they say if you ask them. It’s their “modus operandi”. It’s a lie. You can read the newspaper from every year before 2021. It’s always the same headline. It’s bullshit. I know it, because I’ve worked there as a med student.Most of the time they don’t do shit. I’ve seen 6+ nurses just sit around on their phones and talking shit about eachother behind others backs. Sometimes they get an actual emergency. They are usually overstaffed and still they don’t care about the most basic rules (4 Augenprinzip – just recently some mother was in the news because she got 1000x the insulin dosage – due to the 4 Augenprinzip not being applied properly – which doesn’t surprise me btw when i read about it).It’s a myth. About 70% of the people who go to an ICU in Switzerland are people who are not emergencies. They are people who could just go to their family doctor but they don’t have one or they are too lazy to go to one. That’s why the beds are being reduced in the ICUs. Not because they are “Understaffed”.This whole covid stuff has turned into a complete hysteria and the usual whining people who do so to make their budget bigger have come out – and every idiot is falling for them.
And ICU patients are one thing, but think about all the people who have sequels and who will need some sort of treatment or therapy in the next years. That is going to cost a shitload as well.
And the people who lost someone who will also need either psychological or financiary support. Let alone the burned out hospital staff.
Kids who dropped out of school.
Businesses that crashed and never recovered.
And so on and so on…
ICU patients are one thing, and whose who die cost relatively not much. It’s the survivors who pay the full price, it’s us. The medical and social related costs of this pandemic are huge as long as a large amount of people will get badly sick. That’s the first reason why vaccines are important in this situation. If the plan is not to erradicate the virus off the world, the priority is to mitigate it’s impact on our health so we can keep businesses open and prevent people from overflooding the ICUs or from never fully recovering and staying crippled and cost billions to the economy.
Potentially controversial: they should increase healthcare premiums for people who are able but unwilling to get vaccinated to cover the costs.
You are free to do with your body as you please, but should carry the consequences that not getting vaccinated causes to society
insurance are scams. it s like in the usa, u pay millions of dollars for a cancer when in cuba you will pay 500 dollars for a full treatment. all the idiots play the same game, giving a fortune to insurance companies so they can charge whatever they want to squeeze max of money from your pockets.
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The vaccine costs about 50 bucks for comparison, maybe 75 with the booster shot.
To the people saying we need more beds that’s all
9500 death per year in Switzerland for similar costs:
https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/de/home/gesund-leben/sucht-und-gesundheit/tabak.html
Imagine the uproar if companies started demanding a non-smoking certificate for all their employee…
The question to ask is why does a patient cost so much? Is it incompetence? Corruption? Or both?
[deleted]
I just sent a 35y old with severe c19 pneumonia to the hospital, sats in the 80ies
we’re doing that almost daily now btw
In Basel we just drive over the border to Germany to buy covid patients for cheaper
ICU personnel and also “Pfleger” are ALWAYS burnt out. It’s what they say if you ask them. It’s their “modus operandi”. It’s a lie. You can read the newspaper from every year before 2021. It’s always the same headline. It’s bullshit. I know it, because I’ve worked there as a med student.Most of the time they don’t do shit. I’ve seen 6+ nurses just sit around on their phones and talking shit about eachother behind others backs. Sometimes they get an actual emergency. They are usually overstaffed and still they don’t care about the most basic rules (4 Augenprinzip – just recently some mother was in the news because she got 1000x the insulin dosage – due to the 4 Augenprinzip not being applied properly – which doesn’t surprise me btw when i read about it).It’s a myth. About 70% of the people who go to an ICU in Switzerland are people who are not emergencies. They are people who could just go to their family doctor but they don’t have one or they are too lazy to go to one. That’s why the beds are being reduced in the ICUs. Not because they are “Understaffed”.This whole covid stuff has turned into a complete hysteria and the usual whining people who do so to make their budget bigger have come out – and every idiot is falling for them.
And ICU patients are one thing, but think about all the people who have sequels and who will need some sort of treatment or therapy in the next years. That is going to cost a shitload as well.
And the people who lost someone who will also need either psychological or financiary support. Let alone the burned out hospital staff.
Kids who dropped out of school.
Businesses that crashed and never recovered.
And so on and so on…
ICU patients are one thing, and whose who die cost relatively not much. It’s the survivors who pay the full price, it’s us. The medical and social related costs of this pandemic are huge as long as a large amount of people will get badly sick. That’s the first reason why vaccines are important in this situation. If the plan is not to erradicate the virus off the world, the priority is to mitigate it’s impact on our health so we can keep businesses open and prevent people from overflooding the ICUs or from never fully recovering and staying crippled and cost billions to the economy.
Potentially controversial: they should increase healthcare premiums for people who are able but unwilling to get vaccinated to cover the costs.
You are free to do with your body as you please, but should carry the consequences that not getting vaccinated causes to society
insurance are scams. it s like in the usa, u pay millions of dollars for a cancer when in cuba you will pay 500 dollars for a full treatment. all the idiots play the same game, giving a fortune to insurance companies so they can charge whatever they want to squeeze max of money from your pockets.