I have a handicapped adult daughter on Medicaid (Dallas area). The clinics I’ve taken her to in order to find a primary care physician have been horrid. Dirty, yes, stained, yes, gross, yes, third world? Probably. If I were a physician I swear I’d get down on my own hands and knees and clean my office, my pride would not allow me to do medical business in such a filthy place. When gov runs something, as most of us know, it’s a hellhole. Everyone except for the elite will soon have to be treated this way. And that crap about the U.S. being the worst in global health care, what a crock!!
Wish she could come here where the Medicaid patients are treated to the very best. Brand new hospital clinics, spic and span with great staff and the latest medical equipment. 45 minute long appointments simply to establish service. Access to all the specialists on the hospital clinic staff.
What accounts for the difference?
I can posit this and that but the ultimate answer is elusive. The Medicaid reimbursement rates here are abysmal as everywhere and we do have lots of immigrants. The state government is more liberal (of course) but it is hard to see how this results in benefits to the providers above the lousy reimbursement. It is a puzzle.
It's not a case of what hospital or clinic does the best job of taking care of patients....if the citizens of one country take poorer care of themselves but has better hospitals and doctors than another country where the citizens take better care of themselves, then the country where the people take better care of themselves has a better healthcare system than the country that provides better hospital or clinic care.
Strange, but that's why the U.S. was ranked down the list. But we know where many foreigners go when they need to be treated for serious medical conditions....and it's not Bulgaria.