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Maynard

Maynard — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The observation that healthcare is only for the rich is a reality. Among poor nations, only the rich have the capacity to enjoy the health benefits of being taken cared of. If you are poor, how can you pay your medical bills? Do you have any means? This fact of life has to be reexamined. Many are dying due to lack of support and medical assistance.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Modern medical treament, or that which stands a better chance for cure, is expensive because medical practitioners get lured by greener pastures that are invariably found in richer countries. Modern medical equipment are developed at First World countries where R&D budgets are more permissive. Modern medicines are expensive because their patents are held and owned by big pharmaceutical multinationals that run the business as, well, logically a business. After all, they have spent billions of dollars in R&D, over a period of time, and it’s but logical for them to recoup the huge investment. It is an economic issue, through and through.

Alice Vosloo

Alice Vosloo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In SA we have the same problem. Public healthcare is seriously a health risk. I would stay as far away from a public hospital as possible. You have to have medical aid in order to afford private healthcare. If I didn’t have nedical aid there would be no way I would be able to have had my lung transplant.