Democrat health care plan

CanadianJudo · April 7, 2019, 5:48pm

I waited three week for surgery.

dantes · April 7, 2019, 5:50pm

There’s one very important thing you left out.

The complexity of medicine. I’ve read charts from 20-30 years ago. I’m amazed at how little they did back then.

CanadianJudo · April 7, 2019, 5:52pm

Canada has private health insurance.

Cratic3947 · April 10, 2019, 4:46pm

janer:

I know doctors who made house calls for home-bound patients 20 years ago, and some of them say they would do it today but for the time constraints. I always say that there is one thing we all have in common, we all only get 24 hours in a day. Doctors are now spending anywhere from 8-15+ hours a week on government mandated e-charting alone. The late Charles Krauthammer once referred to electronic charts as great in theory and a nightmare in practice and that’s true. It also requires a doctor’s diagnosis to accommodate one of the ICD codes and there may not be a code for a home visit, even if the doctor had the time to make one. And since most doctors are moving away from private practice - the government has just made it too onerous - and into salaried, hospital based employment, their employer may not allow them to make home visits.

Most of the doctors I know - and I know quite a few - have office practices with some hospitalized patients. That means they have to see office patients and then make rounds at the hospital. Their days are routinely 10-12 hr days not counting the commute and not counting the time spend in e-charting and not counting any time taken away by emergencies. Why doctors don’t do what they used to do a generation ago has to do with the demands made on their time that weren’t made a generation ago. And as a PS to this - a family member is going for a routine physical next week with one of the few general practitioners in our area. The appointment was made in mid-November, and mid-April was the soonest they could book the appointment.

One factory I worked at had both card files and computer files for inventory. The cards were much easier to find out what happened and more accurate. Mandating electronic medical files under Obama care should be unconstitutional…

Cratic3947 · April 10, 2019, 4:47pm

Kind of vague…

Borgia_dude · April 10, 2019, 5:07pm

But I’ve heard that we don’t have long wait times here in the US compared to those nasty socialist systems abroad.

Cratic3947 · April 10, 2019, 5:13pm

Yes… The more the govt controls health care the fewer people want to be doctors…

Doctor Shortages Explode Thanks To ObamaCare

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/doctor-shortages-obamacare-ehr/

Borgia_dude · April 10, 2019, 5:22pm

Meh, plenty of foreign doctors to fill any gap. Plus, the AMA strictly regulates slots for medical schools. Perhaps we can get them to open up more slots/schools?

MidwestIndy · April 10, 2019, 5:29pm

So umm… go back to essentially exactly what we had before the ACA? Well now thats totally brilliant.

Cratic3947 · April 10, 2019, 5:29pm

Sounds good to me. Not sure that because we are rich we should takes other countries doctors…

adroit · April 10, 2019, 5:37pm

Love me some modern day Luddites.

Cratic3947 · April 10, 2019, 6:04pm

If you want digital records go for it… I’d rather have privacy.

highroller · April 10, 2019, 6:09pm

What? Is everything you don’t like now unconstitutional?

It’s like that word has lost its meaning.

Cratic3947 · April 10, 2019, 6:11pm

The 4th A gives me the right to privacy. Putting my medical records online violates that in my opinion.

adroit · April 10, 2019, 6:20pm

They aren’t mutually exclusive. I’d rather have better coordinated care that increased quality, efficiency and effectiveness while decreasing costs.

adroit · April 10, 2019, 6:21pm

Do you use online banking? Does that violate your privacy?

janer · April 10, 2019, 7:58pm

Unfortunately, the reasons for the long wait times for elective visits and procedures are pretty much the same - a shortage of doctors. In the US, non-elective, emergency and “high end” treatments (highly specialized surgery, cancer treatments) are still more obtainable and more quickly obtainable than in the UK, Western Europe and Canada. Also, in some countries with socialized medicine, the cutoff age for certain procedures is 55 or so, so it’s not a matter of 60 year olds waiting a long time for transplants, they just don’t qualify.

GrandWazoo · April 10, 2019, 8:12pm

Are you saying that your medical records are not digital? If so, where the hell do you live.
All of my medical records have been digital for about 15 years in Arkansas and now Texas.
And to protect your privacy is why HIPAA laws are so strict.

reflechissez · April 10, 2019, 9:14pm

The RWNJ’s don’t need no stinkin’ regulations.

Cratic3947 · April 19, 2019, 6:09pm

In fact are dems passing any legislation or do they just whine about Trump all the time?