cheap does not equal quality or easy access as has shown to be the case. Minor detail
Minor detail that every other Western nation finds a single payer system better, cheaper, and more fair, but we in our infinite wisdom are smarter.
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cheap does not equal quality or easy access as has shown to be the case. Minor detail
yes, lets have the government run our healthcare...everything they have touched has gone broke....from social security to the fucking postal office....but you want them in charge of healthcare...you are an idiot
All patients are waiting longer to see doctors in emergency rooms, a study by Boston-area researchers says, but for people with serious conditions such as heart attacks, the time it takes has risen more rapidly.
Between 1997 and 2004, wait times went up an average of 4.1 percent per year for all patients, but for heart attack patients, the waits stretched 11.2 percent per year, researchers from Cambridge Health Alliance report in todays issue of Health Affairs. Blacks, Hispanics, women, and patients in urban hospitals waited longer than other patients.
"The striking finding is that waits are increasing for all Americans, for people who are insured and for people who are uninsured," lead author Dr. Andrew Wilper, also a fellow in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in an interview. For patients with severe illnesses, it is troublesome.
The median amount of time between registering in the emergency department and being examined by a physician was 22 minutes in 1997, according to an analysis of more than 92,000 medical records in the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. By 2004, the median wait time was 30 minutes, the study says. Whether patients had insurance made no difference in how long they waited to see a doctor.
For patients ultimately diagnosed with heart attacks, the wait time rose from 8 minutes in 1997 to 20 minutes in 2004. Patients who needed attention within 15 minutes, according to triage nurses who evaluated them, waited 10 minutes in 1997 but 14 minutes in 2004.
In urban hospitals, the emergency room wait was 30 minutes compared with 15 minutes in nonurban locations.
For black patients, the wait took 31 minutes, for Hispanic patients it was 33 minutes, and for white patients it was 24 minutes. Women waited 26 minutes, one minute longer than men. The longer waits for black and Hispanic patients reflect greater crowding at hospitals serving mostly minority patients, the authors said. They did not find evidence of bias in how patients were triaged.
The longer wait times were tracked during a period when hospital emergency departments were being closed even though patient visits were going up, the authors say. Emergency visits climbed 78 percent from 1995 to 2003 but the number of emergency departments fell 12.4 percent from 1995 to 2003.
Emergency room wait times getting longer - White Coat Notes - Boston.com
so the institution is not valid because they dont think government should be regulating tobacoo?
One has nothing to do with the other.
O wait.. I see because one left wing nutjob orgnization like left-wing Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives wants to dismiss them..we all should too.
Chris..its not a personal attack.
You're a fucking idiot
yeah lets compare 15-20 minutes to waiting for 6 hours in the ER waiting room
God, you get dumber with each post
ahh..wiki
the all knowing never wrong wiki
please stop posting chris really
yeah, can you also explain why the first private hosital that opened up in vancouver is soo busy that its turning away patients
Can you explain why so many canadians flock to the United States to receieve medical treatment
yes lets switch t a single payor system because the illegal immigrants need insurance
Good point
Please tell me you're a hair smarter than that Di. You really don't see a problem with interpreting a document such that government can do anything as long as a written document doesb't say the CAN'T?
Buyer Beware: The Failure of Single-Payer Health Care
good read...I mean you guys like to link left wing tard sights right...some excerpts cause I know most of the lefties don't enjoy reading something unless it agrees with their philsophy.
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