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Please allow me to intrude long enough to offer our situation. I, too, used to take Zocor, and my wife takes a blood pressure medication called Hyzar (actually it is two drugs in one: Cozar and Hydrochlorothiazide). Our CAJA doctor changed me to a generic equivalent of Lipitor (and, I know that many of you will disagree with me, but I do have more than thirty years experience as a Nurse, so I do really know what I’m talking about here), and he prescribes two separate medications for my wife, which is the generic equivalents of the two that make up her old Hyzar.
I have no problem with generic drugs, and I have no problem with going from Zocor to Lipitor. All Statin type cholesterol lowering drugs are similar in action and have similar side effects, so it really makes no difference which one you take. My blood tests still show acceptable levels of cholesterol, and my wife’s blood pressure is still under control.
My message, therefore, is simple: Don’t worry about medications in Costa Rica, and don’t think that you will have to resort to traveling all way back to the states to see a doctor, nor will you have to order your medications from the states…….of course, if you are still going to pay for U. S. health insurance, and if you can still afford it, along with the extra travel and the shipping charges, then go ahead on………
that’s about all I wanted to say………thanks for taking the time to read it.
[quote=”grb1063″]Medical malpractice suits will never be reduced until there is comprehensive tort reform. Given that 75% of congress, including the current executive Oblahblahblahma, that is highly unlikely to happen. Lawyers pass laws to benefit lawyers, which can only be interpreted by lawyers. Texas is the only state that has passed comprehensive tort reform (2 years ago) with respect to medical malpractice. The result has been a 51% reduction in malpractice insurance costs and such a mass influx of doctors that the licensing baord cannot keep pace. Any doctor will tell you that many unneccesary tests are preformed on patients simply to keep the lawyers away. There are more lawyers in the 76 story Columbia Center in Seattle than the entire country of Japan. In Japan, the losing side pays all the costs of the lawsuit….what a concept.[/quote]
Now, I can’t stay quiet. So what if some of you are insulted. Can’t be any worse than I have been insulted, so here goes:
grb, you are so wrong! I agree with musicfan, and I too, was a nurse for thirty-two years – in Texas. Texas did indeed pass a law that placed a ‘cap’ on medical malpractice, and pretty much opened the door for licensed physicians to literally get away with murder! I was an employee of the State Board of Medical Examiners when this crappy law was sneaked past the unwary/unaware/inattentive voters of Texas, when guess who was governor (that’s right, W, and it was a lot more than two years ago).
The only beneficiaries of this so-called tort reform were the insurance companies and the physicians themselves. Amazingly – now, think about it – this sort of thing does NOT benefit lawyers.Who suffers as a consequence? Patients who did not receive proper medical care, that’s who. Maybe your mother, or your wife, or some other loved one. Broken arm didn’t get properly set, and leaves you without the use of the limb? So what? You can’t sue the people responsible, ’cause no lawyer in Texas will take your case, because there’s not enough money there for him.
The fact is that medical malpractice is all too common, and not really that difficult to prove, but so what? W and his cronies made sure that the victims (and, believe me, there are plenty of them, now) now have absolutely no recourse.
You are correct in that there are too many lawyers in the U. S., but that is not entirely due to medical malpractice. It is due to the fact that Americans no longer stand up and take responsibility for their own actions. Something bad happened? Somebody is to blame, and somebody has to pay!
And, here I go again, contributing to this sorry forum that is paradoxically called “WeLoveCostaRica.Com.” Why is that ? Why aren’t you all talking about Costa Rica, instead of all the constant complaining about the U. S.? Boggles the mind……
OK, I’ve gotten under the roof………start throwing your rocks……
Thanks to Twinzor for his attempt to introduce some sanity here. remainder of post removed so as to avoid any risk of offending forum members.
