Hackers and Healthcare Part II (podcast #311)

August 26, 2009

Part II of my interviews with hackers at HAR2009 earlier this month.  Once again I’m asking people from different countries how their healthcare system works. This time I speak with a Brazilian, a Slovakian, a Dane, and a Swiss person, who tell me their experiences with insurance, doctors, hospitals and much more.

If you haven’t heard part 1, I recommend you go back and hear it first before listening to these. The point of doing these interviews was not to somehow gather examples of how public or national healthcare is great, rather it is to show people throughout the world, especially in the US where the government could possibly adopt a public insurance option, how it works (well or not so well) for other nations.

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6 Responses to Hackers and Healthcare Part II (podcast #311)

  1. luiz paulo on August 27, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Bem o que eu posso dizer sobre sistema de saúde e sobre a do governo,em 2000 meu pai sofre infarto do miocárdio agudo Derrame cerebral ele ficou em Hospital público e o atendimento foi precario durante 2 meses e meio,após a insistencia do médica chefe ele teve alto(diga-se que ficou com sequelas) e durante os 6 anos em que viveu havia uma assistencia médica precaria que 1 fez a cada 15 dias era enviado a minha casa um assistente social,um clinico,uma enfermeira isso quanto não faltavam porque tive que gastar com muito com médicos,fisioterapeuta e afins para dar uma melhor atendimento ao meu pai.

  2. bicyclemark on August 28, 2009 at 12:22 am

    Pois, o Julio, que intervistei no programa, tambem falou dos problemas do sistema publico no .br

  3. Richard on September 20, 2009 at 2:30 am

    I wish there were a part III wherein you discuss The Netherlands. The Swiss and Dutch solutions (private insurance with universal coverage and regulation(?)) is talked about here in the U.S. as an option to look at. What’s it like there?

  4. luiz paulo on September 21, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    I wonder how OBAMA is dealing with the situation of the System of Health without tilt to one side.

  5. bicyclemark on September 21, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    your wish could be my command. let me see who i can assemble and how soon…. also my own experience Ill try to explain.

  6. luiz paulo on September 21, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    aguardo.