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drwoood |
Have properly resourced emergency departments
Mar 4 2008, 1:07 AM EST
At the moment emergency departments are already not sufficiently well resourced. If there was a major disaster such as an explosion in a crowded public place, major fire, building collapse, etc., there would be a serious risk that these departments would be unable to cope.
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1. RE: Have properly resourced emergency departments
Mar 28 2008, 7:28 PM EDT
I agree, our system could not cope with a disaster. We have no excess to handle the numbers. We should have more emergency departments spread through the community. The centralised system we have now is antiquated and barely meets our needs from day to day without factoring in a disaster.
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2. RE: Have properly resourced emergency departments
Apr 10 2008, 4:26 AM EDT
What exactyly do we mean by popularly resourced? It's a vague enough statement that's hard to argue with - but the way hospitals are funded at the moment (top-down government funding) is what causes the problems.
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3. RE: Have properly resourced emergency departments
Apr 11 2008, 5:33 AM EDT
The way things are funded at the moment needs to be reformed. Our system at the moment depends more on the whim of a bureaucrat with a centralised mentality and a big picture outlook than it does the community's needs. The whole system of Government funding and use of resources needs to be looked at. This is just one of the many essential services we have that has to be looked at and improved.
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drwoood |
4. RE: Have properly resourced emergency departments
Apr 12 2008, 2:18 AM EDT
This is a symptom of heath not being funded properly.
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5. RE: Have properly resourced emergency departments
Apr 16 2008, 6:46 AM EDT
I agree that health isn't being funded properly. But that isn't the same as saying they are not funded enough. There's more than enough money, but it's managed poorly - which is why I believe "bottom-up" funding is better than top-down funding.
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drwoood |
6. RE: Have properly resourced emergency departments
Apr 16 2008, 8:09 AM EDT
"I agree that health isn't being funded properly. But that isn't the same as saying they are not funded enough. There's more than enough money, but it's managed poorly - which is why I believe "bottom-up" funding is better than top-down funding."Health is not funded enough. There are two questions here, how it is administrated and how it is funded. It should not be administrated from the the top-down in the sense that it should not be micro managed because that is incredibly inefficient and there are informational failures in that over-management will have problems with the overbloated management structure that is too far from the 'coalface' of what is happening. I'm not sure what "bottom-up" funding means, so please elaborate. At the moment (roughly speaking) most health is funded publicly except dentistry. This provides a disincentive to seeing a dentist for checkups, cleaning and so on, especially for people with lower incomes, which leads to a greater risk of dental problems, and greater cost overall. With health in general, if someone is unhealthy, there are also external costs, they may be more likely to pass on a disease, and they are less productive. For both these reasons, just leaving health funding to "the market" will lead to massive market failures, as has been demonstrated by the increased portion of US GDP that is spent on health there. Do you find this valuable? |
