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What we can think from Britain's NHS: What is an ideal healthcare system?
The National Health Service (NHS): It is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. The financial and administrative consequences are dealt with by the organizations involved and no personal involvement by the patient is required.
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British fear 'American-style' healthcare system
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
June 13, 2011
Reporting from London—
Two years ago, Britons were outraged when U.S. politicians like Sarah Palin, in the debate over healthcare reform, turned this country's National Health Service into a public whipping boy, denouncing it as "evil," "Orwellian" and generally the enemy of everything good and true.
It's time for some payback.
Britain is now embroiled in a healthcare argument of its own, prompted by a proposed shake-up of the NHS. And the phrase on everyone's lips is "American-style," which may not be as catchy as the "death panels" that Palin attributed to socialized medicine but which, over here, inspires pretty much the same kind of terror.
Ask a Briton to describe "American-style" healthcare, and you'll hear a catalog of horrors that include grossly expensive and unnecessary medical procedures and a privatized system that favors the rich. For a people accustomed to free healthcare for all, regardless of income, the fact that millions of their cousins across the Atlantic have no insurance and can't afford decent treatment is a farce as well as a tragedy.
But critics here warn that a similarly bleak future may await Britain if a government plan to put more power in the hands of doctors and introduce more competition into the NHS succeeds — privatization by stealth, they say.
So frightening is the Yankee example that any British politician who values his job has to explicitly disavow it as a possible outcome. Twice.
"We will not be selling off the NHS, we will not be moving towards an insurance scheme, we will not introduce an American-style private system," Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically told a group of healthcare workers in a nationally televised address last week.
"If you're worried that we're going to sell off the NHS or create some American-style private system, we will not do that," he said. "In this country we have the most wonderful, precious institution and also precious idea that whenever you're ill … you can walk into a hospital or a surgery and get treated for free, no questions asked, no cash asked. It is the idea at the heart of the NHS, and it will stay. I will never put that at risk."
Cameron's eagerly declared devotion to the NHS illustrates the totemic role it plays in British society, an institution so cherished that some describe it as the closest thing here to a truly national religion. Created in 1948, as the country struggled to rise from the ashes of World War II, the NHS is widely hailed as the welfare state's biggest triumph.
Since then, it has bloomed into a behemoth that gobbles up nearly $170 billion a year in taxpayer money — an amount set to grow along with Britain's aging population — and is one of the nation's largest employers.
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Hundreds report poor care suffered by NHS patients
Patients Association receives huge response after publishing stories of people left lying in excrement or without food
David Rose, Health Correspondent
Health campaigners were “overwhelmed” by hundreds of e-mails and calls yesterday after publishing a report into poor care suffered by more than a dozen NHS patients.
The Patients Association said that it had received a huge response from the public after publishing stories of people left lying in their own faeces and urine, having call bells taken away from them or being left without food or drink.
In a statement, the charity accused the Government of “ignoring the scale of the problem”, adding: “We’ve been inundated by hundreds of e-mails and calls from patients across the country contacting us to offer their support and relate their own experiences of poor care.
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*Sources: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fg-britain-health-care-20110613,0,1237142.story British fear 'American-style' healthcare system
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6813084.ece
* WORDS
outraged: 격노, 격분
whipping boy: 남 대신 비난[벌]을 받는 사람
denounce: 맹렬히 비난하다
Orwellian: 오웰적인, 전체주의적인
embroiled: 휘말리다, 휩싸이다
catchy: 기억하기 쉬운
death panels: 사망선고 위원회
privatized: 민영화하다
farce: 익살거리, 소웃음
farce: 황량한, 처량한
stealth: 살며시 함, 잠행
explicitly: 명백히
disavow: 부인하다
behemoth: 거대기업
gobble up: 눈 깜짝할 사이에 쓰다, 잡아먹다
faeces(=feces): 배설물
urine: 소변
inundate: 감당하지 못할 정도로 주다
QUESTION
1. How do you think about Korean-style healthcare system in general?
(Regardless of fields like dental treatment, internal medicine, orthopedics…etc)
2. According to articles,
do you think the Government-Controlled System like Britain’s NHS is good or bad? Why?
3. 'The NHS' or 'American-style',
which do you think is better and suit for Korea?
4. What is your ideal healthcare system?
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The National Health Service (NHS): It is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. The financial and administrative consequences are dealt with by the organizations involved and no personal involvement by the patient is required.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
British fear 'American-style' healthcare system
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
June 13, 2011
Reporting from London—
Two years ago, Britons were outraged when U.S. politicians like Sarah Palin, in the debate over healthcare reform, turned this country's National Health Service into a public whipping boy, denouncing it as "evil," "Orwellian" and generally the enemy of everything good and true.
It's time for some payback.
Britain is now embroiled in a healthcare argument of its own, prompted by a proposed shake-up of the NHS. And the phrase on everyone's lips is "American-style," which may not be as catchy as the "death panels" that Palin attributed to socialized medicine but which, over here, inspires pretty much the same kind of terror.
Ask a Briton to describe "American-style" healthcare, and you'll hear a catalog of horrors that include grossly expensive and unnecessary medical procedures and a privatized system that favors the rich. For a people accustomed to free healthcare for all, regardless of income, the fact that millions of their cousins across the Atlantic have no insurance and can't afford decent treatment is a farce as well as a tragedy.
But critics here warn that a similarly bleak future may await Britain if a government plan to put more power in the hands of doctors and introduce more competition into the NHS succeeds — privatization by stealth, they say.
So frightening is the Yankee example that any British politician who values his job has to explicitly disavow it as a possible outcome. Twice.
"We will not be selling off the NHS, we will not be moving towards an insurance scheme, we will not introduce an American-style private system," Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically told a group of healthcare workers in a nationally televised address last week.
"If you're worried that we're going to sell off the NHS or create some American-style private system, we will not do that," he said. "In this country we have the most wonderful, precious institution and also precious idea that whenever you're ill … you can walk into a hospital or a surgery and get treated for free, no questions asked, no cash asked. It is the idea at the heart of the NHS, and it will stay. I will never put that at risk."
Cameron's eagerly declared devotion to the NHS illustrates the totemic role it plays in British society, an institution so cherished that some describe it as the closest thing here to a truly national religion. Created in 1948, as the country struggled to rise from the ashes of World War II, the NHS is widely hailed as the welfare state's biggest triumph.
Since then, it has bloomed into a behemoth that gobbles up nearly $170 billion a year in taxpayer money — an amount set to grow along with Britain's aging population — and is one of the nation's largest employers.
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Hundreds report poor care suffered by NHS patients
Patients Association receives huge response after publishing stories of people left lying in excrement or without food
David Rose, Health Correspondent
Health campaigners were “overwhelmed” by hundreds of e-mails and calls yesterday after publishing a report into poor care suffered by more than a dozen NHS patients.
The Patients Association said that it had received a huge response from the public after publishing stories of people left lying in their own faeces and urine, having call bells taken away from them or being left without food or drink.
In a statement, the charity accused the Government of “ignoring the scale of the problem”, adding: “We’ve been inundated by hundreds of e-mails and calls from patients across the country contacting us to offer their support and relate their own experiences of poor care.
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*Sources: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fg-britain-health-care-20110613,0,1237142.story British fear 'American-style' healthcare system
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6813084.ece
* WORDS
outraged: 격노, 격분
whipping boy: 남 대신 비난[벌]을 받는 사람
denounce: 맹렬히 비난하다
Orwellian: 오웰적인, 전체주의적인
embroiled: 휘말리다, 휩싸이다
catchy: 기억하기 쉬운
death panels: 사망선고 위원회
privatized: 민영화하다
farce: 익살거리, 소웃음
farce: 황량한, 처량한
stealth: 살며시 함, 잠행
explicitly: 명백히
disavow: 부인하다
behemoth: 거대기업
gobble up: 눈 깜짝할 사이에 쓰다, 잡아먹다
faeces(=feces): 배설물
urine: 소변
inundate: 감당하지 못할 정도로 주다
QUESTION
1. How do you think about Korean-style healthcare system in general?
(Regardless of fields like dental treatment, internal medicine, orthopedics…etc)
2. According to articles,
do you think the Government-Controlled System like Britain’s NHS is good or bad? Why?
3. 'The NHS' or 'American-style',
which do you think is better and suit for Korea?
4. What is your ideal healthcare system?
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