Posted on 10/29/2015 7:21:58 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
It’s really dangerous, for patients anyway, when policy wonks decide what type of health care is necessary.
“In popular understanding, rising health-care spending is often viewed as an inevitable consequence of advances in medical technology, increasing longevity, expanded access, and other mostly positive factors,†Johns Hopkins University lecturer Phillip Longman writes the Summer 2015 issue of The Family in American, a journal of public policy. “Many people also point to profiteering by health insurers, or to needless administrative costs, or to patients demanding treatments they do not need.â€
“Yet while all these factors play a role in driving up health-care costs, the mounting drain imposed by the health-care sector on the rest of the economy comes mostly from its inflated prices, low productivity, and high volumes of unnecessary surgeries, redundant tests, and other profit maximizing behaviors among increasingly monopolistic health-care providers.â€
This is more than vaguely reminiscent of the guideline of one HMO 20 years ago that stated if you wanted cataract surgery in both eyes, you had to prove that you needed both eyes. Moreover, supposedly “unnecessary tests†can give doctor and patient alike information they might find useful, such as whether the latter broke any bones or suffered an internal damage in an accident.
Oprah Winfrey: “White older people have to dieâ€
http://conservativepost.com/oprah-winfrey-white-older-people-have-to-die/
Let the hypochondriacs pay a higher insurance rate.
Ask the VA!
It has been since 2006 and I am still waiting to get my left eye replacement after I lost it.
Want a glimpse into socialized healthcare, look at the VA where you go to a clinic (sometimes hundreds of miles from your home) enter to get a blood draw, you are the only one in the clinic, but, you still have to first take a number and sit there until you are called, just for a simple blood draw!
You will never see a real doctor, (instead a PA) and if you need to see someone after hours (8:00AM - 4:00PM) you have to call what is called a “telenurse” who opens a book and begins to ask you questions from this book to determine what if any treatment is due you.
If I have to go to a hospital, I have to travel more than 400 miles one way to the hospital.
When ever I went to the clinic it has to be by appointment only, you cannot just walk in and see a doctor NO SIR! When ever I did see PA, I was asked a bunch of routine questions, like do you have any firearms in your house? One time, I was asked about nutrition and then was told I would have to see a nutrition expert to learn how to eat properly. I am 6'4” and weigh 180 pounds, I asked the PA, do I look like I need to learn how to eat properly?
This is why I don't go to the VA anymore.
I just suffer through my injuries and will never go to a federal VA center, where the federal government is doing nothing more than providing public sector unions with great wages and a golden pension and collecting personal information on American soldiers to be used against them down the road.
my prayers are with you.
Stay safe my friend.
you too!
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