It’s coming. Inevitable fallout from Obamacare.
A relative of mine in nursing school has been given training on how to conduct a full physical. Proof in my mind that the majority of health care will be turned over to paraprofessionals in the future.
Nurses are not paraprofessionals.
Nurses have been trained how to do full physicals for decades.
Yup. Right in one.
My two bits? Does my kid need to see an ER trauma doc to get an earache diagnosed and treated? Nope. Some of the "paraprofessional changes" are probably a good thing.
But, when the earache doesn't go away, and evolves into a headache, and nausea, and profuse bleeding, and so on and so on (you get the idea) ... will my kid be able to receive critical treatment from a full-fledged doctor?
I'd guess "Probably Not" or at least not without a long wait. *That's* where Obamacare has the system heading, and frankly, that's what scares me the most. Medical costs don't scare me - I can always find more money, somewhere, somehow.
But, if there are no docs available.... (None, in this particular case, means "none", as in, there are no medical practioners available for the problem in my local AND extended area...a possiblesituation that liberals just can't seem to wrap their heads around) ....I can't just pick up a couple of courses on open-heart surgery at the local community college.
This is what I worry about at night when I can't sleep. :-)
/rant off. thanks for listening.