Posted on 01/19/2023 9:31:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Too many people have lost the art of self-care. They expect to rely on the system for everything, when you shouldn’t be showing up at a medicare facility unless you have something that is beyond your ability to care for yourself.
Then, because of how your insurance is structured, as long as somebody says hello, they can send a bill. This results in medicine costing more than it should.
Fixing this is probably going to require getting insurance out of the healthcare options at the GP level, but you can pay cash to the GP without involving the insurance company, just like your granddaddy used to do things when it came to his doctor.
How many people were murdered at hospitals with Covid treatments, or lack of real treatment.
“...but you can pay cash to the GP without involving the insurance company, just like your granddaddy used to do things when it came to his doctor....”
The “System” continues to race away from that model. Sad.
Well, I don’t know who the hell the elderly people I’m seeing with them in Walmart and Dr. Offices. Maybe just some friends.
I mean they are right. Nobody sane is going to give American healthcare a medal. Its a lot of money for poor quality. The question is the cause and what to do about it. The Left unfortunately has managed to tie recognizing there is a problem with automatically accepting their solution for it.
Recently moved from Ohio where the healthcare was great - generally available doctors, specialists, and services (many choices for x-ray to CAT scans and MRIs: available within a day). New Mexico feels like a third world country, 6 months to find an available general practitioner which was required to enable getting a referral for specialists as they don’t take referrals from out of state. Then months to schedule needed procedures. Found the root cause - the Democrats running the state imposed essentially a sales tax on Dr. Income. They have to pay the tax on services they provide, can’t be passed onto the patient. Doctors generally leave if they can. Shortage of Doctors is unreal. Was in hospital a couple of months ago, half the doctors I met were from other countries (2 from Africa) and hadn’t been around more than a couple of years.
Doctors, hospitals and insurance companies went into business with the government.
It’s a wonderful example of socialism. S/
Government now involved in 50% of “healthcare” spending...satisfaction with the current state of healthcare finance down 50%...coincidence...nope.
“...Doctors, hospitals and insurance companies went into business with the government...”
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That all dates back to WWII and wage freezes.
Industry started offering “benefits” to attract employees.
because they were prohibited from raising pay.
Henry J. Kaiser was building Liberty Ships.
To attract employees, the company offered health care.
The origin of Kaiser Permanente.
Solution.. raise taxes.
We do. We are tired of doctor google. Being demanded to do things that make no sense because some Internet quack said something. We are tired of getting stiffed on Laurent’s because doctors “don’t need my money. They are already rich”. We are tired of senseless government regulations and being forced to spend 8 minutes charting for every one minute patient care. We are tired of quality measures that do not promote quality but rather reduce pay. We are tired of non-clinical administrators.
In my generation of physicians we are tired of going pups coming out of residency decoding not to work except to whine about seeing 12 patients We are tired about patients not following our treatment plans and then blaming us for self inflicted complications. All the while work attorneys from Dewey Screwem and Howe suing on contingency basis (we don’t get paid unless you do) while our defenses cost $400/hour and the vast majority of times when we win we are will out the funds with no recourse.
We cannot refuse care to people without being sanctioned. Any patient can come to the ER abuse us and we still can’t say hir the bricks.
We are quite happy if people don’t want our health care. There are plenty of other choices. We are ok with that.
First visit to doc in the new year, they were handing notices out to Medicare patients that the group is participating in an ‘Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - ‘group of doctors, hospitals and/or other health care providers that work together to improve the quality and experience of care you receive. ACO’s receive a portion of any savings that result from reducing costs and meeting quality requirements.’
Gee, wonder how much my docs’ ‘take’ will be.
Preach it brother.
I get the complaints - but unless you’ve worked in the system - you can’t understand.
Either that or if you live long enough to see the quality of doctoring change
I keep thinking that since congress likes laws and all that that There ought to be a law that the 1st thing that government does before it fixes any problem is to investigate and see what the government caused that problem in the 1st place. It certainly appears that the government method of operation is to create a problem and then make things worse by applying a “fix”
There is 1 thing that you left out, It’s insurance companies; See insurance companies have a list of things that have to be checked off before they offer the services that you really need. good example in my case is even though I have physical conditions that can’t be changed by it you have to go to physical therapy 1st an Absolute waste of money And my time. you’ll find if you have any kind of chronic condition It’s the insurance companies that are putting up huge barriers to even things like getting an MRI
Government healthcare control snuck in the back door. In order to survive doctors now belong to a healthcare corporation who is controlled and dictated to by the government
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