Lapte si miere

Nu cred ca mai are cineva dubii ca sistemul de sanatate e complet ineficient. Ba mai mult, dupa ce ca esti oarecum fortat sa bagi bani in buzunarii doctorilor, te trezesti ca ti se pun diagnostice gresite, ca esti tratat cu dispret, sau mai grav, ca doctorii iti taie in trei, ca Ciomu, orice speranta ca un serviciu public poate fi de calitate.

Inainte de a vorbi cat de prost e conceput sistemul si ce manevra incearca mesterii guvernamentali prin noua lege a sanatatii, as vorbi putin despre cum sta treaba in Hong Kong, loc pe unde au trecut britanicii care au lasat in urma institutii si sisteme publice care chiar functioneaza. M’am dus astazi la dispensarul de pe insula pe care stau  la 9:20. Am explicat unei asistente ce vreau, si la 9:21 am platit la ghiseu 45 de dolari, echivalentul a 19 lei sau a unui pranz sarac in carne in oras. Pe la 9:25, dupa ce o tanti ma pune pe cantar si imi ia gresit inaltimea (cu 3 cm in minus :) , ma cheama o asistenta la un birou, imi cere buletinul de HK si imi trece pe calculator istoricul bolilor etc etc, datele de contact, etc etc. Apoi imi da un carnet care scrie “Family Medicine Specialist Clinic/ General Out pacient record, lipeste un sticker cu numele meu si un cod de bare pe coperta si ma invata ca trebuie sa’l aduc de acum incolo daca mai trec pe la ei, sau pe oriunde altundeva pe Hong Kong Island. Intre timp imi luasera si  pulsul si temperatura.

Pe la 9:35, tanti care ma cantarise imi face semn ca mi-a venit randul, si intru in cabinetul doctorului care inainte sa intru avea deja deschisa in sistemul informatic  fereastra cu istoria mea medicala (goala deocamdata :) Scrie acolo ce si cum, pune un diagnostic, da un print cu reteta si ma trimite sa iau medicamentele de la un ghiseu-farmacie, de alaturi. Bun… Farmacista verifica buletinul, pune etichetele colante cu instructiunile de folosire si numele meu pe tuburile cu medicamente, si asta-i tot! Good-bye, s-a facut 9:40. Asta da rapiditate – in 20 de minute m-am inregistrat in sistemul lor de sanatate, am fost consultat si mi s-au dat si medicamentele!

Revenind la plaiuri mioritice, inteleg ca acum se vrea  sa se introduca acest card national de sanatate, care in opinia mea e o mare prostie si mijloc de sifonare de bani publici (de parca nu s-au sifonat destui pana acum). Dupa ce ca sistemul informatic al CNAS a crapat anul trecut dupa o luna de folosinta, iata ca acum ni se baga pe gat aceste carduri cu cip. La ce bun sa ai card cu cip? – nu puteai introduce datele in sistem pe baza buletinului? Trebuia sa le pui pe CIP si sa ai un card care e oricum legat ca numar de identificare  de CNP-ul buletinului? Cred ca ori mie imi scapa ceva, ori poporul roman e iubitor de birocatie nemarginita…

Dar in afara de problema cu cardul, hai sa analizam cat de absurd este CNAS-ul. In momentul asta, din salariu ti se retin niste contributii pt asigurarea de sanatate. Cand nu mai ai serviciu, nu mai esti asigurat. Adica cum? Dintr-o data nu mai beneficiezi de sistemul de sanatate, chiar daca o sa fii angajat in viitor si o sa platesti in continuare. Chiar daca ai platit pana acum si poate ca nici n-ai fost pe la doctor. Ce prostie… Iata de cata hatogaraie si pierdere de vreme e nevoie, doar ca sa dovedesti ca esti asigurat - http://www.cnas.ro/intrebari-frecvente/cum-dovedesc-calitatea-de-asigurat- 

Sau ia uite cat de complicat e sa te duci la alt cabinet, din alt judet de exemplu sau sa schimbi medicul de familie! E o nebunie!
http://www.cnas.ro/intrebari-frecvente/ce-trebuie-sa-faca-asiguratul-

Daca tot s-a introdus co-plata, la ce mai trebuie sa dai contributia asta din salariu? Bineinteles ca in HK si UK nu exista asa ceva. Esti “asigurat” fara sa platesti nimic, nici tu, nici angajatorul nici nimeni.Te duci la doctor si consulatia are pret fix, iar in pretul asta intra si medicamentele. Te duci la spital, si dai 100 de dolari hk spitalizare/ zi. O nimica toata. Nu-ti trebuie nicio calitate de asigurat. Toata lumea care are buletin beneficiaza de sistem. Uite cat de simplu e, cum se taie lantul trofic dintre case de sanatate?, angajatori, angajati, si cat timp si resurse se economisesc in modul asta.

In Romania e dezastru. Se platesc bani mult prea multi pe medicamente, care daca le iei valoarea intrinseca sunt foarte ieftine. Daca nu vrei sa faci jocul marilor corporatii farmaceutice, the BIG Pharma, nu-l faci. Daca vrei sa adopti un sistem american, cel mai scump si inechitabil din lume, care nu de rezultate si fara mila lasa oamanii sa moara cu zile daca nu au asigurare, inseamna ca ti-ai pierdut mintile si te cheama Traian Basescu. Reforma presedintelui, care se bazeaza pe concurenta stat-privat nu e altceva decat mijlocul de omorire a sistemului de sanatate public, si migrarea masiva catre cel privat, o sursa de inechitate si posibil viitor monopol (ca in oricare mare industrie) Iata ca bine atragea Raed Arafat atentia lui Basescu ca asa ceva este o prostie. Sistemul trebuie sa fie de stat, iar daca cineva vrea asigurare suplimentara de viata, sanatate etc, sa-si faca la privati.
Nu poti avea un sistem privat care sa se alimenteze de la banii publici, cum voia Basescu si alti destepti.  Sau cine stie…poate or fi interese sa se depopuleze Roamnia, caci, nu-i asa, Jeffrey Franks, cel care conduce indiret Romania, a inchis si scoli, si spitale si acum vrea sa marite si Posta Romana si ENERGIA, si cam ce e profitabil si a ramas nefurat de la stat.  Domnii astia de la FMI nu au niciun interes de natura sociala. Rolul lor e sa-si recupereze banii si sa marite, pe la americani sau canadieni sau alti prieteni de-ai lor companiile de stat. Sau sa-si aduca OMG-urile (organisme modificate genetic), cianurile, fermele de porci si alte porcarii in Romania. Acum vad ca si-au adus si omul de pavaza, sionistul MRU, cel care si-a pus in birou portretul Annei Pauker (Hannah Rabinsohn)

Bravo Basescule, bravo Guvernule, vrem si mai multa reforma a statului! Opriti-va din furt, din distrugerea cu buna stiinta a Romaniei, si din angajat incompetenti, si Romania va fi nu doar prospera, ci si foarte bogata!

ps:

iata cum e sistemul in UK si in HK:

iata cat de birocratic e sistemul din Romania. Redundanta (documentelor, avizelor, cardurilor) e pentru prosti si e drojie buna pentru contracte pe ochi si bani frumosi!

Iata ca aroganta de tip “ghici ghicitoarea mea” nu poate sa nu fie de catre societate. In Decembrie, Vladmir Putin, intr’o interventie cu rusii de 4 ore jumatate,  matura pe jos cu protestatarii si le lua in ras simbolul de la piept, pe care il compara cu un prezervativ.

Ca prin minune, presa din Romania s’a mai desteptat in legatura cu ce se pune la cale la nivel mondial. Cel mai recent act – ACTA (Acord comercial anti contrafacere), acordul negociat in secret inca de pe vremea lui Bush. E deghizat intr-un tratat care combate pirateria, dar e actul care pune bazele cenzurii si controlului sever pe internet.

Vreme insa habar n’are cine, ce, cum. E de departe cel mai prost ministru pe care l-am vazut vreodata.

“În rest, este vorba de tot felul de produse care pot fi obiectul contrabandei: (poate contrafacere)  blugi, cafea, alcool, parfum, medicamente.”

“Însă eu personal am studiat actul, iar respectivul punct spune că România, dacă vrea, poate să ofere date privind ID-ul (poate IP) de unde s-a făcut o anume tranzacţie pe internet”

“”Eu nu cred că a semnat în secret acest tratat, a fost în dezbatere, dar la Comisia Europeană (când?), bineînţeles, dar suntem într-o primă fază, urmează dezbaterea de către Parlamentul European şi apoi ratificarea de către parlamentele naţionale.”

“ACTA este un acord internațional care vine și sincronizează de fapt țările semnatare, și ați văzut că suntem într-o companie destul de selectă, SUA, țările europene, Japonia Coreea de Nord, este o sincronizare între aceste țări împotriva furtului (tot n-a inteles) de pe internet””

When Zuckerberg had high fever and the blue rash of socializing sparked a neuron, his roommate chose to support the president hopeful Perry. So the dream of becoming rich overnight, and while you’re still young and you can drive drop head coupes without looking silly perished. Even though I’d walk through the valley of the shadow the death, I’d still see the gold flickering as a charming flame engulfing the analog non-existence of life. That was a 400 million dollar mistake. The “take away” from this is: think more and you might have a chance of hitting the jackpot. I don’t think Anita realized what opportunity she was missing…

I felt that night was the lucky night and the stars were aligning favorably, so that Anita would learn what money can buy.

There were many times when I was day dreaming, with the dream being so vivid that I could see Benzes and BMW’s, a Porsche 911, a 800 sq foot apartment in Wan Chai, and Filipinas falling in love with me and my pockets instantly. I think even Anita would have loved me in a very special way. I forgot about the private parties on private modern sampans called yachts, and the wine glasses trembling with joy as our high performance speakers were reviving the 80s lyrics. Too bad we can only sail on seven seas (and not eight or more) , the ones writer Ya’qubi wrote about. These were the seven seas everybody had to cross to reach China. There weren’t Google maps back then in the 9^th Century AD, so his text must have been magical. Imagine there were many people who had never seen a sea in their life, so they had to imagine a sea of water, which was rather hard to conceive had you lived in a small village by a small river. Do you remember the first time you saw the sea? Wasn’t it magical? This guy, Ya’qubi, was no Chinese, contrary to what you’d must have assumed after reading his Chinese syllabic name. In fact his real name was Ahmad ibn Abu Ya’qub ibn Ja’far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih al-Ya’qubi and he was a Muslim geographer living in Armenia. He probably might have witnessed the fall of the Islamic regime, which took place when a rich an influent guy named Ashot, was recognized as “Prince of Princes” and later began king and founded the Bagratuni dynasty.

The dynastic rule under a lion and cross flag was successful. Ashot III, the descendant of Ashot I, moved the capital to Ani, which became known as the City of 1001 churches. I imagine there must have been lots of churches out there, as a few of them amazingly managed to survive till today. These Christians were building beautiful churches more than 1001 years ago; it was an act of revenge and art; it was an act of faith:

“And I will execute great vengeance upon thee with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”  (Ezekiel 25:17)

It’s so sad that in today’s dynasty ruled North Korea, the only notable structures in Pyongyang (flat land) are the sickle and hammer statue and the 105 storey-tall pyramid-shaped hotel. The building was due to completion in 1989, but the commies in NK ran out of money after the collapse of USSR and their landmark hotel’s ghostly shadow remained there for 16 years, until a capitalist Egyptian company decided to invest in the structure. They probably anticipated that Kim Jong Ill, the gaga dark sunglasses dictator, was about to die soon, and the country would have no future without entrepreneurship, capitalist moguls and tourists. This crazy “equal people” ideology has always been an illusion. Just like believing you’ll become rich one day by betting on black horsies or playing Mark 6.

Anita, will you stop going through those photo albums? There’s plenty of stuff to see outside. Come laa!

Just a minute…

Anita Goes to Happy Valley

-          a gwailo novel–

Good-bye. Aufwiedersehn

Anita? Where are you going, girl?

I already told you… horse race. Wanna come?

I think you chose to go there at the wrong time. Eight o’clock is late o’clock.

No, no, no…We cannot be late.

I’m telling you… Don’t complain afterwards.

Cris, shut up! Okay, we will not be late, you will see, tell me the number.

Lucky number eight…

I had a despairing affinity for this number. Eight. It is as widespread as a flu in this city – from the wealthy locals that welcome you to their vast penthouses on the eight or 28 or 58 floor, to Typhoon signal no.8. Even the Oyster card equivalent, the ba da tong is based on number eight. They say “sei tùng baat daaht” means “rechargeable in all directions”, and since there are 8 directions – voila! the eight stylized symbol of the infinity on each Octopus card makes you go round. Eight is what my friend Graham had in mind. He was swallowing doubt on his way to the filthy tattoo place in Mong Kok. It was a week later he was analyzing his Ba Gua with high precision, as if his eyes were shooting a read beam of laser light so that the hole of the ba gua could transcend the silent perfection. What do you say, Cristiano? I really love my ba gua! I wanted to say that it resembles the Korean flag, but instead I wisely chose to shut up. We were in China, and this was no place for copy cats. Surely the Chinese invented the 4 gua that lie on the Korean flag. It is also a fact that the Chinese invented the fork and at the same time, the chopsticks, this marvel of human evolutionary science. “Yo,… Graham, are u crazy dude, you’re demolishing the window, frame, man…” Let me show you how it’s done. I learned this trick from Mr Wong, the owner of the Gwailo-known Mr Wong’s restaurant in Yau Ma Tei. I took a chopstick, and I tried pushing with my right palm. “Fucking shit!..” As I was sucking the blood from my left middle finger, I tried again. This time it worked just fine. The cap of Harbin ejected elliptically into the sink.

With the chop sticks, with the chop sticks, when we do it, we do it right… With the chop sticks! This was the Chinese fun. The kid who performed the cover of that catchy song called “Like a G6” was ten times more intelligent and inspiring than the writer of the original piece of Lan Kuai Fong.

Eight is money. But not too many people are really interested in numerology. They’d rather know what Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have done in the past week. Welcome to the Bieber mania, the kitch society with no real values. Value the 1000HKD bill and you’re smart. If you don’t value money, then you’re living in the wrong city, my friend. You look around and you cannot even see the 9 peaks that made Kowloon so pittoresque – the giants are gone. Erected on their tired backs, lie the 40 storey buildings that are part of what the locals call redevelopment – a cultural revolution of city life.

Opposed to eight is number four, associated with death simply because death and four are pronounced slightly the same in Cantonese. Only the tones vary, but which grail can get those tones right? I ultimately prefer not to pronounce any Cantonese word. But I sometimes like to make people laugh. What you have to do is easy – just pronounce these weird words as you hear them, and the locals will laugh their asses off at you straight away.

Enough about laughter. Anita?… Can I use your computer?

Why?

I want to listen to songs on YouTube.

There came that German pitch. Nein Nein Nein…

Damn…Please, I won’t do anything stupid like stealing your passwords…Please?

But no… she close the lid so firmly. No wonder she is using this black rugged Facebook war machine.

Cred ca e o premiera in brandingul afacerilor in Romania. In politica s-a folosit atat in cazul casei regale, ceea ce e de inteles, dar si pentru a pune partidul lui Gabriel Oprea la adapostul crestinismului si a acvilei unitatii nationale. Intre timp, acvila cu cruce in cioc s-a transformat intr-o acvila CFR-ista. Parerea mea e ca ambele idei sunt proaste, iar daca intentia lor a fost sa faca ceva in genul siglei PRM, le trebuia mai multa inteligenta si imaginatie.

Revenind la Tiriac – compania, nu e vorba de un logo obisnuit care a reunit 4 simboluri, ci o stema in toata regula. Care sa fie oare motivul? Imperiul lui Tiriac nu se limiteaza numai la importul de masini. Pe cale de consecinta, nu poti crea o imagine de brand care sa-ti reprezinte cu succes numele, cata vreme ai afaceri in mai multe domenii. O cale fireasca ar fi sa ai mai multe branduri sub aceeasi umbrela.

Dincolo de cele 4 simboluri (leu, albina, stea si turn) si de cele trei culori (de care nimeni n-a amintit in presa mare, duuuh!), observam si crucea, caci nu-i asa, cu voia Domnului facem profit si dainuim peste generatii. Cat despre generatii, nu se stie cat timp va fi pastrat acest logo. Intr-o zi un Tiriac il va privi de jos si va spune: “E depasit!”

S’au introdus cursele de noapte.

Vinderea pe nimic a aurului si minereului ramas in RO a reintrat in linie dreapta. Cum pretul aurului a atins un nivel record, de 1600 dolari/ uncie, baietii de RMGC si-au trimis PR_istii de serviciu la TV. Intre timp, ministrul ungur al culturii romane, Kelemen Hunor, a semnat pe sest niste hartii importante, iar Borbely, cel care a refuzat sa dea avize de mediu, a fost inhatat de ANI. Maine se anunta proteste, dar societatea romaneasca e apatica, si n-o sa iasa cine stie ce. Nu ma astept sa fie vreun reportaj/ vreo stire pe la televiziunile de stiri (cumparate demult si ele). Cel mult o sa fie buzz in presa scrisa pe net.

In lupta cu fortele raului, Funeratorul e pregatit. Inarmat pana’n dinti cu aparatura anti frauda, are o misiune imposibila: sa duca Romania pe calea cea dreapta. Va reusi oare? Nu ratati noile aventuri cu Funerathorul.

in lupta cu fortele raului