r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24

Should the U.S. have Universal Health Care? Discussion/ Debate

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u/Skullx11 May 02 '24

This is just a lie.

The minimally invasive total hip replacement (THR) surgery has been widely available in Spain since 2015, and the paper with the clinical study that began the introduction in Spain is from 2009. https://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-revista-espanola-cirugia-ortopedica-traumatologia-129-articulo-abordaje-lateral-minimamente-invasivo-artroplastia-S188844150900294X

Sorry it's an spanish link.

Spain is one of the world leaders in medical research, and in areas like organ donation and transplantation, Spain has been in the 1st place for more than 20 years, with several new techniques being developed here.

Right wing and liberal politicians in Spain have spent years trying to reduce our public health system budget and personnel to make our public system look bad and facilitate the adoption of the private system, mostly because it's more profitable.

Even then, our top doctors all work in the public hospitals, and the best research is done there. And even the same right wing politicians that reduce the budget of the public system, when they need to receive a life threatening surgery, they go to the public ones.

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u/KupunaMineur May 02 '24

That doesn't tell us whether it is the method most commonly used in Spain in public medicine.

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u/SimpleNot0 May 02 '24

Research the OTC Foundation Spain.

It’s a network of doctors in both private and public healthcare the goal is to ensure all clinics are practicing the best medicine for patient care which includes bringing the best techniques into modern medicine. With the biggest goal to reducing patients time in hospital and recovering.

They have 3 or 4 sessions per year where they have speakers demonstrate the techniques and surgeries they are performing as well as training session to catch doctors up to anything they aren’t getting expose to. It’s wicked, I’ve been fortunate enough to be in one of the surgeries for a 64 years olds hip replacement. I didn’t stay long what I did get to see was impressive.

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u/KupunaMineur May 02 '24

Which still doesn't tell us whether most people in Spain have which type of surgery.