FWIW, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and medical care for soldiers are all pretty good on the US scale.
Ahoyhere's comment isn't the half of it. The incident happened at Walter Reed Army Hospital, which is the same place that US president's usually go for care. If stuff like that could happen there (it may have been a different branch in DC), what's the rest of the system going to be like?
I worked for a medical software company for seven years, converting Medicare specs for outpatient code editing into working programs. We would get regulatory updates once a quarter, make changes to the code and the data, test and ship. The fun part was that we would usually receive the reg changes 3 weeks before the hospitals had to have the updated application. Also, their reference application didn't match what was written in the specs. Worst of all, the spec changes were often unreadable and we would have to call DC to figure out what they meant. It will not surprise many of you to learn that they wouldn't know either and would "have to get back to us". I could go on and on...
Ahoyhere's comment isn't the half of it. The incident happened at Walter Reed Army Hospital, which is the same place that US president's usually go for care. If stuff like that could happen there (it may have been a different branch in DC), what's the rest of the system going to be like?
I worked for a medical software company for seven years, converting Medicare specs for outpatient code editing into working programs. We would get regulatory updates once a quarter, make changes to the code and the data, test and ship. The fun part was that we would usually receive the reg changes 3 weeks before the hospitals had to have the updated application. Also, their reference application didn't match what was written in the specs. Worst of all, the spec changes were often unreadable and we would have to call DC to figure out what they meant. It will not surprise many of you to learn that they wouldn't know either and would "have to get back to us". I could go on and on...