{"id":2578,"date":"2005-09-07T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T08:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2005-09-07T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T08:25:56","slug":"usas-helsevesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2005\/09\/07\/usas-helsevesen\/","title":{"rendered":"USAs helsevesen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;kan virke ubegripelig p\u00e5 innbyggere av andre industrialiserte land. Her finner man noen av verdens beste sykehus, side om side med 45 millioner mennesker uten helseforsikring. Gjennomsnittlig koster det amerikanske helsevesenet langt mer enn f.eks. det tyske eller norske, men samtidig makter det ikke \u00e5 levere bedre resultater p\u00e5 sentrale omr\u00e5der som levealder og barned\u00f8delighet. Malcolm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/archives\/000753.html\">&#8220;Blink&#8221;<\/a> Gladwell skildrer virkeligheten til de uforsikrede, og fors\u00f8ker samtidig \u00e5 forklare tankegangen bak den r\u00e5dende politikken i en meget interessant <a title=\"The New Yorker: Fact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/050829fa_fact\">artikkel i <em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a>.  Her blir du blant annet kjent med &#8220;moral hazard&#8221;, et kjernebegrep i den amerikanske helsedebatten:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[&#8230;] moral hazard has profoundly shaped the way think tanks formulate policy and the way experts argue and the way health insurers structure their plans and the way legislation and regulations have been written. The health-care mess isn&#8217;t merely the unintentional result of political dysfunction, in other words. It is also the deliberate consequence of the way in which American policymakers have come to think about insurance.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Det er verdt \u00e5 merke seg at det absolutt ikke bare er fattige svarte som har dette problemet. Jamf\u00f8r dette sitatet fra en av mine favoritt-teknoblogger, JKOntherun, hvis forfatter gjennomgikk en massiv bypass-operasjon i 2001 og siden fikk <a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.blogs.com\/jkontherun\/2005\/09\/a_special_anniv.html\">problemer med helseforsikringen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I was not renewed and quickly found no insurer would touch me for health reasons.  I am now &#8220;self-insured&#8221; as health care providers call it and it has been a struggle to afford the doctor visits, blood lab work and medications I need daily, which all together run over $1200.  But the human spirit is strong and I survive.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;kan virke ubegripelig p\u00e5 innbyggere av andre industrialiserte land. Her finner man noen av verdens beste sykehus, side om side med 45 millioner mennesker uten helseforsikring. Gjennomsnittlig koster det amerikanske helsevesenet langt mer enn f.eks. det tyske eller norske, men&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2005\/09\/07\/usas-helsevesen\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politikk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}