Medical Care in America

Dear Reader,

Today we visited a general purpose pharmacy and a high-tech genetics laboratory.
At first we were at the Children's Hospital. We were guided through the sections of genetics laboratories.
They can do researches of the patients DNA and out of that, they could indicative of possible diseases. The modern genetic research, is able to check up if an unborn human, will suffer from e.g trisomy 21. To do such an research is quite expensive, and without any medical assurance, for many people not affordable. Even if they could pay such an research, not everyone would do it, because of some ethical issues.
Is it really got to know that you maybe suffer from cancer, with a percentage of 25 %? It's a hard issue talking about. Because it's about humans privacy. In my opinion, it's important to push these gentic science forward, but it should never become a obligation for anyone.


After that visit we went to Wallgreens, for me it is a mixture between drugstore and pharmcy. In this store you can buy things like in Germans drugstores, e.g cosmetics, some foods, cleaners, toys, electrical, food for pets, candies and even even magazines. You can purchase medicine against cold and fu and pain relievers. More specific medicine is handed over a special counter. There are a wide range of medicine, they also offer Walgreen's Brands which are cheaper than the original ones.
I think Walgreen is a good possibiltiy to get medicine for most social groups. To my mind the problem of getting the medicine there, is that people buy there without consult a doctor before. You have to inform yourself with e.g the internet or the instruction leaflet. But health is a topic with which you shouldn't avoid unseriously.

All in all I think in comparison to the American health system, the German ones is better. Because in Germany everybody has a health insurance and everybody get the help he needed. Health should not depends on the social staus a person has.