AW: [HSF] RES: [OT?] Why should Health Purchasers pay for the costcomplicati...

Sun Oct 7 19:30:32 EDT 2007

Hal,
if I got that money, 800 dollars for case, I was rich in Germany, you know
our numbers...
Roberto

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Betreff: Re: [HSF] RES: [OT?] Why should Health Purchasers pay for the
costcomplicati...

Theofilo,
  I believe and sympathize with the ridiculous compensation figures  you 
quoted for your system in Brazil.  A couple of years ago, I was invited  by 
Trinidad's minister of health to visit a public hospital in the Port of
Spain.  
Though I've trained in gritty hospitals such as Cook County and LA  County,
that 
hospital in Trinidad was by far the most wretched I had ever  seen.  They 
wanted me to do valve surgery there for about $800 per  case.  Mind you,
this is a 
country that is awash in petro dollars.   Unfortunately, the corrupt system 
benefits only a few, and the masses get  screwed.  Very sad.

Hal

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