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Thanks Sam. Didn't know you are in NJ, and how awful the healthcare is there. What do you think contributes to such lousy healthcare on a statewide basis? My guess is that it is something regulators are doing, or not doing, to make healthcare people so miserable in their jobs.
We lived in Nor Cal for 18 years and the healthcare was outstanding. We're back in our home state of WI and, if anything, it's better. And I mean from PCPs to surgeons to staff. Yeah there are a few clunker hospital groups, but nothing like what you describe.
And before someone thinks "Oh, it's NJ and the East Coast. Everyone is rude." - that is simply not true. I worked for AT&T in NJ (Piscataway) for years and loved NJ (especially in the college town of New Brunswick where I stayed, ironically home to J&J). It's not the people. The people are great.
Your comments do make me appreciate the care we get here though. Healthcare in the US is generally a have/have not situation, and it just shouldn't be this way.
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I do know I have had horrible health care since the 80s. Most of the people I know have had similar experiences.
NJ, had had many of the major pharmacuetical companies here...and for decades.
I do know someone who took a meeting with a sitting US Senator from NJ. This was decades ago.
The Senator confessed to him, that in order to stay in office in NJ, you could not oppose the pharmacuetical companies.
Is that why health care is bad here? I don't know. I don't know the ins and outs.
But I do believe there is greed run absolutely wild. Just very little morality in the mix.
re J&J...my cousin married a tennis pro who taught some of the Johnson family. He has become a friend of the family and they even travel together on vacations. My cousin and her husband are both very nice people. If they are friendly with the Johnsons, to my mind, it also means they are very nice people.
Personally, I think there is a small percentage of horrible people in society. But that small percentage can cause a lot of problems...and also make it seem like the corruption is more widespread than it is.
Very familiar with New Brunswick. My brother got married at a chapel on the Rutgers campus. Kirkpatrick Chapel? Something like that. Have been to Rutgers many many times...they have a film festival there, various events...my friend was a booster of their basketball team...