BrokeLoser
Diamond Member
A lot of people put the blame on schools being unable to push out enough people. That's definitely a big part of the problem. But that really means that it's the educational system as a whole that is failing our country. We need more medical schools. We need more nursing schools. We need them to be accessible. And we need a greater emphasis on training people to do boots on the ground care positions, as opposed to elitist and corporatist research positions.
Also, we need to abolish health insurance outside of catastrophic care, so that the private health care sector can become a healthy market once again.
Affluent people will be able to retain a personal physician through exclusive “concierge medicine” services. But here’s what others can expect: routine visits with a rotating cast of nurses and physician assistants with increasingly spare and online checkups with doctors.
No one’s promising you can keep your doctor anymore
Laughably false.
We write off millions a year because the poor won’t pay our hospital system. And they see doctors, nurses, specialists, allied health providers, clergy we partner with, admins, technicians, etc...
Aging/dying Boomers soaking up resources.
It'll be a mess for a few years, but in 10, nearly half will be gone, and in 20, nearly all.
That's when affordable healthcare could at least theoretically happen, including socialized medicine.
Only affluent people can access this healthcare you seem to crave.
Its because we are the only 1st world nation without medical healthcare.
No, Son. That's the republican plan.
I have a person physician and a physician group. I am certainly not rich. I just made a conscious decision years ago. I can usually get in to see them on short notice, they have full admitting authority if I need it. It is really rare for me to go to a convenient care facility, and then only if I am losing blood, somebody needing to give me a stitch in time, or am injured in another state on some mountainside. I have not been to an ER since I retired from the military, back in the late 90s except for my last skiing accident. Everything goes through them. The get copies of all tests and review them. They recommend my specialists and surgeons. My healthcare is covered under Medicare and Tri-Care and it is rare for me or my wife to see a bill that comes out of my pocket.
If you do not have a primary care physician, you have learned to trust, that has all your records, even military treatment records in whatever country, going back 40 or 50 years, you should consider making a change.
I'll be around thirty more years, get used to it.
Hmmm….more Twilight Zone shit here I see.
The same people bitching about our healthcare system are the same people, in effect, begging Mexico’s people to invade our nation by the tens of millions….the same people lobbying to provide Mexico’s people with free healthcare.
WTF….are you people fucking retarded? What impact does 50 million broke as fuck human cockroaches have on ANY healthcare system?
Why can’t you bleeding heart wackos allow yourselves to get out of your own way?
dblack Golfing Gator pknopp , you see this shit? This alone is why you should vote this retarded as fuck shit down by voting Republican.