[lit-ideas] Re: Immigration
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:56:09 -0500
The irony is that diabetes is one of the most preventable diseases around.
The current epidemic is directly connected to the obesity epidemic.
Personally, I would give them one visit, and then demand weight loss as a
condition for further care, since the weight is the cause of the problem.
I wonder why that's not done. The way it's done now, patients do 10% of
the work, and the healthcare system does the rest as the patient slowly
deteriorates. If the patient can't do 50% of the work, he's being enabled,
not treated. Socially, too, so much can be done, yet nothing is done.
Saw an interesting movie last night, The Man in the White Suit, 1951, with
Alec Guinness. Beautiful black and white cinematography.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/26/2006 6:07:15 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Immigration
>
> I asked a doctor friend about the burden illegals
> place on the health care system. While the doctor
> had no immediate research to hand, I learned:
>
> Illegals get into the health system easily. A
> chronic problem like diabetes is a shoe-in. They
> get Medicare/Medicaid and most health providers
> don't ask questions.
>
> A single patient with *uncomplicated*
> diabetes--illegal or not-- would need one consult
> with primary physician every 2 months, all the
> daily medications and daily blood sugar test
> equipment, ophthalmology consult every year,
> vaccinations (flu, pneumo-vax, tetanus, etc.), and
> all the rest of the health maintenance tests and
> protocols (EKG, chest X-ray, lab tests,
> vancomycin, nephrologist consult, eventual
> hemodialysis, grafts by vascular surgeon, frequent
> hospital admissions, etc. and etc.). Per patient
> costs per lifetime throughout the health care
> system probably run over ten million dollars.
>
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