Comments on: “La Caja de Pandora” – documentary will explore “crisis” in Costa Rica’s public health system

By: richard schlinder

richard schlinder — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:36:00 +0000

I have a stone in my bladder.Sorry,but this is an example. My appointment to have it removed is in March 2015. Look out emergency room! Not so good.

By: richard schlinder

richard schlinder — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:26:00 +0000

Thanks Lav.
I do enjoy Teletica news at 7:00 each night. Your right, my Spanish needs improving.

By: Lav

Lav — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:14:00 +0000

Why? Reading in Spanish, watching Spanish TV… Are all wonderful ways to learn the language. Why don’t YOU do the translating, it will be far more beneficial to you than having someone else do it for you.

By: Derryl Hermanutz

Derryl Hermanutz — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:56:00 +0000

When public health care systems were first conceived, medical care wasn’t very expensive because it couldn’t do much. If you had a heart attack, you died. If your arteries were clogged, you had a heart attack and died. If you had cancer, you died. Now, 75% or more of the average person’s lifetime use of health care is in their last 2 years of life, as they are artificially kept alive by high tech high cost medicine, while they are slowly but surely dying in hospitals. About 15 years ago the State of Oregon compiled a list of over 700 medical procedures, then listed them in order of the cost effectiveness of the procedures, and tried to implement a cutoff point where the costs vastly exceeded the benefits. There was moral outrage and the plan was squashed. People want high priced Hail Mary health care to prolong their lives, but nobody wants to pay for it. We all get old and our body goes for s___ and we suffer then die. Wasting health care resources, to let us believe the fantasy that medical science can “save” our beloved family member (or ourself) from the inevitable, is the reason public health care fails.

By: richard schlinder

richard schlinder — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Will ISCR print a story on the Caja Salud situation in English for us Gringos??

By: jimbo97

jimbo97 — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:19:00 +0000

With a Socialist (sorry, “Progressive”) in the White House, they’ll soon be making a documentary of the failed government run healthcare system in the United States.

By: mhogan

mhogan — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:15:00 +0000

Failure of a model for socialized medicine? That’s nothing new in the world — study history. Just give it time and the U.S. model will fail too (well, it’s failing even before it gets going–haha). When something is perceived as “free” it always gets abused. In Ticoland, I’ve never seen such a bunch of sickly, wimpy people that have to run to the “hospital” over every little ache and pain. Why not? For the masses, it’s next to free, if not.

By: disgusted

disgusted — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:33:00 +0000

For routine medical check ups Blood exams and medication works pretty good. Outside that getting appointments for EKG, Eye exams , stress test, ultra sound and such you can wait 6 months then find it cancelled when you go there rescheduled another 4 months. Happen too my family, friends and myself.
Obama care going to see the same waste … Most all presidents, Diputados and those who make a good living here go to the private clinic and hospitals they know the system is broken just for us the poor working class.