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.
Iâm looking forward to the time when we go back to ârealâ
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.)
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?
Like most cancers it creeps in, infects and multiplies until death, we have watched this play out within the past 20 years
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.
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.
Old Lefty SLIME mag is still around ?
Commie Slime found two fellow socialists to cook up a Hit Piece .Just shocked.
When will this tired old Socialist Rag die ?
Who buys this Sad pathetic toilet paper?
Good riddance. It’s time people turn to the REAL Great Physician, Jesus Christ, and from the Satan run medical system
Funny they pick a cardiac event to begin their storyâŚ
Try sitting for hours in an ER waiting room after dozens have filled up the queue.
Not enough doctors.
Everyone was told that Obamacare was going to make everything affordable and great - for all Americans
And we had down-home Andy Griffith selling it to us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QltbgQ6Oghw
(he was about 82 when he did this commercial - b. 1926)
Everyone was told that the jabs were safe AND effective
Everyone is told that when a man puts on a woman’s dress, he becomes a woman
The basic problem with this model is that it undermines the buyer-seller relationship that is the foundation of sound economic principles. A patient doesnât function as a normal âbuyerâ because he doesnât care about the cost of a medical treatment or procedure, while a doctor doesnât function as a normal âsellerâ because he answers to the third-party payer, not the patient.
The inevitable result is a combination of escalating costs and declining quality.
My husband is a canary in the goldmine.
Heâs bedridden, so I signed him up for health care in home. The company was supposed to send a nurse practitioner to the house to manage his healthcare. They showed up once, for an initial evaluation. After that, they set up appointments for video conferencing, using a third party system similar to Skype or FaceTime. It was invasive and they probably sold our personal data. (Somebody did. Iâm still cleaning up the mess.) Iâd sign in to the portal and wait for them to sign in, but they never did.
I switched companies. There are only two that service our area.
The second company was worse. They would announce appointments a matter of hours ahead of time, always on weekends, holidays and evening hours, without saying what time the appointment was, and then they wouldnât show up, call, or anything. The only two times they sent a lab technician, she showed up unannounced, to draw blood for fasting labs, right after he ate. I spoke with the doctor in charge, and he set up an appointment with a different nurse practitioner. He confirmed the appointment, and apologized for all the trouble. The nurse practitioner never showed up. I called the doctor, and he discovered the nurse practitioner had deleted the appointment out of the computer system. When my husband got Covid, they refused to treat him because they have a policy of not seeing patients who have Covid. The new nurse practitioner never even showed up for the initial evaluation, and never saw my husband or spoke to him even once, in any capacity.
A different company provides someone to help in the home with bathing and what not. We went through about 15 assistants in a short period of time, as they kept quitting their jobs. The company is down to about 10% of the number of employees they had a year ago. We now have a wonderful assistant whoâs been with us several months. I got her to help me transfer my husband from the bed to a reclining wheelchair, so I can take him on the handicap bus to see a real doctor.
If we lose this assistant I donât know what weâll do. I guess heâll just lie in bed until he dies from medical neglect. He refuses to go the VA hospital. I sent him there once while I went through cancer treatment, and it almost cost him a leg. He had a recent stay in our local hospital, and came home in worse shape than when he went in, and was covered in bruises from being roughly handled.
I still have good medical care for myself, but I expect as our healthcare system declines, most of us will be treated as my husband is. Heâs the canary in the goldmine.