I am doing a project on the health reform and am trying to find information on how the new health reform is going to add/reduce the amount of time we spend waiting in doctor’s offices. If anyone has any reliable/good website that have information on this it would be greatly appreciated.
How Will The New Health Reform Affect The Amount Of Time We Wait In Doctor’s Offices?
December 11th, 2009 by admin Leave a reply »
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As more people are going to be able to access a doctor, then yes in some areas, and no in others. For example, as they can get treatment elsewhere, there will be less people going to the ER for treatment, allowing the staff there more time to deal with true accidents and emergencies. But those patients will be seeing other doctors…
I do not understand why so many Americans have fallen for lies about healthcare in the USA, abroad and also the planned reforms [1]. I mean, if the healthcare system in the USA is so good, why have no other nations taken it up? Could it be due to the following facts?
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [2].
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [3].
Or if the US healthcare system is run so well, why not run the fire service like the healthcare system? [4]
Maybe that is because in the USA, insurance companies push up costs, buy politicians and refuse to pay claims that people pay for [5]. (Look up Wendell Potter on YouTube to hear more if the link below is too long.)
Obama wants to make insurance cheaper, stop insurance companies from refusing health coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and make sure they pay out when they are meant to [6], a system similar to that which works in Taiwan [7]. He debated this before he was elected [8].
Is it right that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, Cuba, Germany and so many other industrialised nations with universal healthcare?
If you think my arguments are wrong, e-mail me with proof. But if you can not, let Obama try to help America. If he fails, vote him out in 2012.
I doubt it will touch that. Simply requiring everyone to buy health insurance does NOTHING to affect waiting times anywhere.
What they need to do is change the medicaid/welfare laws. These laws currently say that if I am on medicaid and I go to the ER, for ANYTHING, it is free, but if I go to the doctor I have to pay. So of course, even if they have a simple sore throat or a fever, instead of spending $5 on tylenol or throat lozenges, they make the state pay (YOU, through your taxes) $500, so they can go to the ER. They want to save money they need to change that. That’s what causes the 3-hour wait times in the ER, all the stupid people on medicaid who are there on YOUR DIME. Then maybe it would change doctor’s office waiting times – because those people would be REQUIRED to see the gen practitioner instead of the ER doc.
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I guess it means bring a good book or go find another doctor.
I don’t know. I don’t know where all these people come from.
Who live here, I mean. Who live here in the United States.
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Only have to do the math 40 million new patients no new doctors.