FACE OFF! ACC.10 Bloggers to Debate US/UK Health Systems

by Jack Lewin March 16, 2010 15:09

Some post-ACC.10 blog coverage to look forward to: Our ACC member bloggers will be giving their take on the differences in the US & UK health system in the form of two hypothetical CV patients, Thurgood Powell and Mortimer Schnerd. From Dr. Fisher:

We thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast two heart patients - one with insurance and one without insurance - from our two health care systems, to illustrate how these patients obtain health coverage, might be managed, and how things look from the patient's perspective.

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For the purposes of the exercise, we'll take two patients, Mr. Thurgood Powell, a highly successful 57 year-old businessman making $250,000 (£166,128) per year with his company PoshPosh Entertainment, and Mortimer T. Schnerd, a pleasant 43 year old man who is unemployed but working part-time in the local K-mart, earning $17,400 (£11,562) per year. Both men will experience heart attacks, both men will present to Emergency Rooms in both countries, and both men with require 4-day ICD stays and require the implantation of an automatic defibrillator and follow-up for the first year after the heart attack. Beyond that, heck, who knows. But that will at least give us a starting point to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of both health care systems and to compare and contrast the two systems. We will purposely refrain from political commentary in our posts (that's for you to do in the comments section!). We only ask that the commentary discussion be respectful and civil. I would be thrilled to hear what the British think of their health care system/costs/etc. over on Sarah's blog and the U.S. perspectives on this blog.

So there you have it. Look to their blogs (Dr. Clarke and Dr. Fisher) for the full discussion, and I'll be posting my response here as well. 

Other posts from Dr. Clarke today:

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Jack Lewin Jack Lewin, MD, has been chief executive officer of the ACC since November 2006. Under his leadership the College has continued to build upon its standing as a national leader in advocacy, with a particular focus on reforming Medicare, Medicaid, and the financing and delivery of quality health care.

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David Holmes, MD, FACC, became ACC president in April 2011. Dr. Holmes is the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and an interventional cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

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Thad Waites, MD, FACC, began as Board of Governors chair in April 2011, and currently practices clinical cardiology with emphasis on interventional cardiology at Hattiesburg Clinic in Hattiesburg, Miss. He is also a board member of the Mississippi State Board of Health, and director of the cardiac cath lab at Forrest General Hospital.

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