Posted on 01/16/2023 4:39:56 AM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
It’s four in the morning and you awaken with crushing chest pain. Your family calls 911 and paramedics arrive and diagnose a cardiac event. They inform you that they need to transport you forty-five minutes away because your two local hospitals have closed over the last several months. Even when you arrive at the hospital, there is massive overcrowding and they inform you that there are no ICU beds open for you in that fifty percent of the beds in the cardiac unit are “browned out” due to lack of staff. This nightmare is an all too familiar post pandemic reality about the delivery of health care in our country. This is not the expectation that the public expects in the delivery of health care in one of the richest nations in the world that has been at the cutting edge of health care innovation of the last century.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
safe and effective...
When the American health care system became “free” to the poorest of us, and unaffordable to many/most in the middle class, the System in my mind was broken with it’s collapse inevitable.
I’m looking forward to the time when we go back to “real”
doctors who are not beholden to the corporate systems.
Written by two academics. Anecdotes, but no statistical data analysis.
I thought that spending on medical care as a percent of GDP was at an all time high?
Commie care promised to eliminate the overcrowding in emergency rooms.
They sold this lemon saying the ER was only crowded because of the number of folks there who had no other choice because they had no insurance, so would show up for non emergencies.
The commie “solution”? - give “everyone access” to insurance.
Now that we have our “new” congress, are they going to repeal this commie relic?
First they let it get to “crisis” proportions, then they rush in with a “solution” that effectively nationalizes healthcare and after that it can only get catastrophically worse, but you’ll have NO recourse because it’s run by the government which answers to nobody.
(Correction. Government doesn’t answer to citizens. It is beholden, however, to the rich and powerful individuals who run everything behind the scenes.)
Yup. Obamacare set off these destructive trends. All the problems that the writer is warning about were predicted years ago. The Covid hysteria sped up the process. Free lance health care staff, oddly called locum, is a natural reaction to the market.
I recently had an injury and went to a walk in rather than a hospital emergency room. I’m sure it cost more, but at least I was promptly seen.
This article ignores all the Medicaid patients with minor complaints who use the ED as their primary care.
At this point does ANYONE trust a doctor, or hospital care for that matter?
That is such a succinct observation. On 3 occasions in the past 5 years, when discussing prescription of some of the new designer meds for arthritis, neuropathy, etc.,, I have had to say, "I am not poor enough to afford that medicine."
Like most cancers it creeps in, infects and multiplies until death, we have watched this play out within the past 20 years
“...Medicaid patients with minor complaints who use the ED as their primary care...”
And the 40 million illegal alien leaches that are camping in hospital emergency rooms.
The GOP had all three branches in 2017 and wouldn't touch Obamacare repeal with a ten foot pole. Its authors and biggest beneficiaries - insurance companies and large hospital groups - are among their largest contributors.
So I would guess you will hear nothing of any genuine doctor-patient free market solutions that might fix the problem.
And He's got plenty of space.
This is already happening in NY. My mother had to be airlifted twice across the state to find an open hospital bed. The care flight EMS said it’s happening all over NY state.
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
It’s inevitable, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.
US health care has been destroyed because it has government running every aspect. Government colludes with Big Pharma and doctors are almost outcasts unless they do the bidding of government.
Our health system is a total wreck. Online medical charts have all been hacked and nobody seems to care. Doctors spend most of their time behind the computer instead of looking at and checking the patient.
I remember good american healthcare that benefited patients and doctors.
This train wreck isn’t anywhere near that quality. People are dying younger now and that is nothing to be proud of.
“The GOP had all three branches in 2017 and wouldn’t touch Obamacare repeal with a ten foot pole. Its authors and biggest beneficiaries - insurance companies and large hospital groups - are among their largest contributors.”
When they did NOT have all three branches they were passing bills that “repealed” it on a daily basis…
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