Hackers and Healthcare Part 1 (podcast #310)

August 20, 2009

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Anytime you find yourself at an open air international hacker festival you are sure to be surrounded by people from all over the world.  Being located in the Netherlands, most campers come from somewhere in Europe, though plenty of North Americans and a few South Americans as well as Asians manage to make the trip.
With the mainstream media abuzz with reports about the struggle in the United States to adopt a public health insurance option, I have been wanting to present testimony from regular people who have lived their entire lives in nations with national healthcare or other kinds of healthcare systems. How does it work in their country? What are the problems? How much do the basic things like doctor visits, hospital stays, and so on, cost? I set out to find campers from different countries, to ask them these questions.  This is part 1 of what I learned.

3 Responses to Hackers and Healthcare Part 1 (podcast #310)

  1. luiz paulo on August 21, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    você se supreenderia como nos brasileiros nos viramos para ter atendimento da saúde pública no brasil

  2. bicyclemark on August 24, 2009 at 11:34 am

    Na 2a parte tenho houvera um Brasileiro para contar como é, o privado e o publico no Brasil.

  3. luiz paulo on August 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    a propósito e verdade que existe um congresso de hacker e afins que acontece em algum pais da europa.