Posted on 01/07/2012 5:34:10 AM PST by Kaslin
Great article.thanks for posting.
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I see a lot of these Ugent Care clinics popping up. People must be going to them. Makes a lot of sense to me: faster and less expensive than an emergency room. The vast majority of people go to doctors for routine maladies anyway.
In Texas, it is difficult to find doctors who accept medicare patients.
An Urgent Care clinic opened in our town. The other morning while filling up I saw there was a line of several people out the door waiting to get checked in.
Is this in Massachusetts or Greece?
I don’t know if Greece has a healthcare problem, it does have a financial problem though
All you have to do to find out how well collectivist medicine works is by looking at the UK’s and Canada’s.
Steve Crowder checks out the Canadian health care system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw
Romneycare, the precursor to Obamacare.
Coming to a town near you.
When I needed a new GP I phoned for an appointment and the conversation went something like: “The doctor isn’t seeing any new patients; wait, what’s your insurance?” I said, “Blue Cross Blue Shield.” She took the numbers and responded with, “The doctor can see you Tuesday at 9:00am.”
My local hospital, a huge building, has almost no hospital beds. Much of the interior has been rented to private doctors. This means that the hospital can legitimately send non-paying patients away because they don’t have the beds for them. As near as I can figure the actual hospital handles very few patients and, I’m guessing, not many long term care patients.
Laws forcing hospitals to handle illegal aliens for free, even long term care patients, have eroded the system to the point it can’t sustain itself. There are also numerous laws forbidding the very thing that would resolve much of the doctor issues; over-regulating nurse practitioners, for example. Keeping companies and organizations from establishing new clinics that would compete with hospitals, for another.
On the other hand, two types of medicine have dramatically reduced costs and improved results every year since their inception; Lasik and cosmetic surgery. That’s because these procedures are not paid for by “insurance.” Practitioners must compete in the open market. Hence, almost everybody can afford their services.
This is all thanks to 0bamaCare and Nancy Pelosi shoving it down our throats
The chameleon-teflon RINO Willard to Felon (now convicted) DiMasi:
"I bet you $10,000 that the evil we've done through today
will make ME the presumed ‘front runner’
with my controlled NBC and FOX News while YOU
rot in prison for eight years for what we do, partner."
Fast forward enough years and it will be like in every other state with socialized medicine - you’ll need to pay under the table bribes to get seen. Won’t happen right away but it will happen.
My insurance has a $20 copay to go to an urgent care vs. a $150 copay to go to the ER.
At the ER, be prepared for a long wait, an extended stay in the curtained room if you have insurance and many illegals and uninsured people in front of you. (I have been in the curtained room for 5+ hours with no one even checking on me- I seriously felt they were running up my bill on purpose.)
Urgent care, no wait.
It is fitting that this would be happening worse in uber-liberal Mass.
What about their WONDERFUL govt healthcare system?
I thought that was supposed to make healthcare available to everyone.
That has happened here akso. Turns out it was people lining up for painkiller scrips.
D.A. finally made him stop
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
When I see articles like this I wish the Romney apologists hadn’t been run off so I could send them a ping.
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