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  Playing the Waiting Game
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| I just found out the Dr. I have been seeing for the last several years is leaving... I really hate to look for a new Dr. I went to see the new Dr. last week and I just didn't feel it with him... I felt like the light may be a little dim... Maybe he's in it for the money and not really to help patients. Just the feeling I got. SO I called my OLD Dr. That Dr. had dropped me because of my insurance change. Now that I have new insurance I'm hoping he'll take me back... With all my health issues I'm not sure if that is a deal breaker. | |
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| Wow, that stinks. I hate finding a new doctor anyways. Mine I had since I was a kid retired. I found one he happened to be one that practiced with him for a short time and he was taking new patients. Hopefully you old doc will come thru for you. | |
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I Really Love Jeans
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Location: North Dakota | I think insurance should be forced to take ANY DR we want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Insurance has become nothing more than legal mafia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!They screw us constantly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I've used the same Dr since I was born... He's a retired Army Surgeon that served for over 35 years in the military... Needless to say I never go in for "Just the sniffles, you pansie" or anything like that. I just call him, and say hey I need something for my allergies, or a cough and he tells me what to take, and if that doesn't clear it up he brings me in to see him which is almost never becuase he's a master of home remidies. LOL If I go to him, I'm hurt pretty bad. He's saved me so much money on hospital bills... He's stiched me, done a few minor surguries, and even done some brain scans after a wreck... Needless to say at 80 years old, that man better find the fountain of youth quick cause after he goes to meet His Jesus, this girl ain't seein no other "Doc". LOL | |
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Playing the Waiting Game
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| IRunOnFaith - 2014-11-06 4:58 PM I've used the same Dr since I was born... He's a retired Army Surgeon that served for over 35 years in the military... Needless to say I never go in for "Just the sniffles, you pansie" or anything like that. I just call him, and say hey I need something for my allergies, or a cough and he tells me what to take, and if that doesn't clear it up he brings me in to see him which is almost never becuase he's a master of home remidies. LOL If I go to him, I'm hurt pretty bad. He's saved me so much money on hospital bills... He's stiched me, done a few minor surguries, and even done some brain scans after a wreck... Needless to say at 80 years old, that man better find the fountain of youth quick cause after he goes to meet His Jesus, this girl ain't seein no other "Doc". LOL
That's great that you have a doctor like that... AND that you're still relatively healthy. I on the other hand am a MESS!! The short list...
1. 1989 Torn ACL
2. 1990 Hodgkins Disease
3. 2000 Triple bypass heart surgery with continuing heart issues
4. 2002 Lost everything in a house fire (not medical but still a big deal)
5. 2012 Breast cancer
6. COPD
7. 2 leaking heart valves.
THUS I need a good doctor I can trust to know I'm not making this shit up. | |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | What's the best, most straightforward solution to problems like this? What should the goal be when re-vamping and reforming health care?
1.) Allow patients the most choice possible.....this encourages competition. Let's not kid ourselves - docs and nurses want to earn a good living and would love to see competition where their expertise, service, experience and skill is rewarded.
2.) Preserve and even enhance innovation and research, so as to keep the USA on the cutting edge across the globe. Competition and a robust open market is the only way this can be accomplished.
3.) Healthcare is "top heavy" - part of the reason for this is the mountains of regulations and paperwork. There has always been a lot of paperwork, at least over the last 30 years, but over the past 20 years, this senseless burden, which does nothing to lower cost or increase quality of care, has risen exponentially. The largest salaries in health care organizations are earned by people who know little about medicine or patient care. Those in the upper echelon who do have some expertise, tend to be very mediocre nurses and docs who recognized their mediocrity and sought job security somewhere else in the system, away from patient care. Most of these sorts of executives spend useless time on creating burdensome, meaningless policies that seem to need revision, ad infinitum.....so as to justify their job.
4.) Reward/incentivize good preventative self care and healthy lifestyles. When people recognize that staying healthy means more money in their pocket, they will trend toward accepting more personal responsibility for themselves.
5.) Allow all legitimate private insurers access to all markets across state lines.
6.) Torte reform to reduce overhead expenses and eliminate then credibly expensive trends toward practicing defensive medicine. It doesn't have to be drastic.
7.) Keep a running tab of healthcare provided to countries whose citizens are being cared for here, free of charge. Bill those countries.....a lot of creative ways of accomplishing this.
The way you start the ball rolling is to promote high deductible, affordable "catastrophic" insurance combined with health savings accounts that people actually own. If all the above measures are implemented, there will be a pretty drastic drop in health care cost, which translates into lower premiums, etc...
This is the ONLY possible way of lowering cost, while preserving choice, and actually increasing quality. Incidentally, if there is widespread increasing interest in this, the HSA's will in effect be an infusion of money into the private sector. | |
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OT and some what of a rant