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Topic	Can someone pro-universal healthcare for America address something for me?
ChromaticAngel 04/11/17 10:34:39 PM #38:	EggplantParm posted... 1) Simply saying someone needs schedule ahead of time is kind of a cop out...there are procedures and screenings that should happen sooner than later and an increased wait time due to an increase of patients won't be bypassed by scheduling ahead of time, especially depending on when you are informed you need something done. Procedures that happen sooner rather than later have naturally shorter waiting times. Take responsibility for yourself and act like you can think ahead a few weeks to plan for a checkup that you want. EggplantParm posted... 2) irrelevant. How many freshly insured have the money to do this? "freshly insured" were previously just dying without getting any care at all so the waiting times are a huge improvement for them. You seem to be misunderstanding here that the average person in America actually has private insurance, and a certain select very poor people use Medicaid. Elderly and disabled use Medicare. There is just a sweet (sour?) spot where you're too wealthy to have medicaid but too poor to have private insurance that hits a few million people that is the main problem area. It's pretty likely that your personal waiting times will not change much because it's not as if poor people from the ghetto downtown are suddenly coming to rich suburbs to go to the doctor. EggplantParm posted... 3) the ER wait times are affected though. See article above. ER waiting times are already a thing and they won't get significantly worse. An "emergency" to medical personnel means you're about ready to die. People abuse the ER system currently because you can't get turned away at the ER. Then they don't pay. Then hospitals lose tons of money because ER services are extremely expensive. If more GP/PC doctors, Urgent care, and specialist physicians were available for people in general on the tax dollar, then hospitals and ER will benefit as a result. --- https://puu.sh/tcLsT/24f4611235.png <cite>ChromaticAngel posted [p:877021582] in Can someon... [t:75226826]...</cite> <quote><cite>EggplantParm posted...</cite> <quote>1) Simply saying someone needs schedule ahead of time is kind of a cop out...there are procedures and screenings that should happen sooner than later and an increased wait time due to an increase of patients won't be bypassed by scheduling ahead of time, especially depending on when you are informed you need something done.</quote> Procedures that happen sooner rather than later have naturally shorter waiting times. Take responsibility for yourself and act like you can think ahead a few weeks to plan for a checkup that you want. <cite>EggplantParm posted...</cite> <quote>2) irrelevant. How many freshly insured have the money to do this?</quote> "freshly insured" were previously just dying without getting any care at all so the waiting times are a huge improvement for them. You seem to be misunderstanding here that the average person in America actually has private insurance, and a certain select very poor people use Medicaid. Elderly and disabled use Medicare. There is just a sweet (sour?) spot where you're too wealthy to have medicaid but too poor to have private insurance that hits a few million people that is the main problem area. It's pretty likely that your personal waiting times will not change much because it's not as if poor people from the ghetto downtown are suddenly coming to rich suburbs to go to the doctor. <cite>EggplantParm posted...</cite> <quote>3) the ER wait times are affected though. See article above.</quote> ER waiting times are already a thing and they won't get significantly worse. An "emergency" to medical personnel means you're about ready to die. People abuse the ER system currently because you can't get turned away at the ER. Then they don't pay. Then hospitals lose tons of money because ER services are extremely expensive. If more GP/PC doctors, Urgent care, and specialist physicians were available for people in general on the tax dollar, then hospitals and ER will benefit as a result. --- https://puu.sh/tcLsT/24f4611235.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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