Oh I am aware that it is not an A or B choice - we need a C or a none of the above choice. But just sayin' when I get in arguments with libs over health care their go to is that healthcare should NOT be 'for profit' because it's a 'right'.
Oh I've read studies, papers and articles over the years that make sense around fixes - like pricing transparency, making health insurance like car insurance and un-mooring it from being an employee benefit where you are stuck with who your employer picks vs paying out the nose for your own policy. (where we are at right now, my hubby for now is calling himself retired at 61 after a layoff in September - we have a high deductible plan that is twice as expensive as his former employer that we have yet to use so no idea if it's any good or not)
I remember reading that surgical centers, which are more cost efficient and better outcomes than hospitals got froze (current could stay open but no new ones) during the Obamacare bill negotiations due to the lobbying of big Hospital chains who see them as eating into their margins that are used to help cover indigent care.
When my dad was in and out of the hospital in the years before he died in 2014, we had to come in thru the ER to see him if it was outside of visiting hours, and every time the waiting room was FULL. Given that many were sitting reading books, bringing knitting, etc. this was clearly NOT a true emergency. Just being able to divert uninsured people who use the ER as their PCP to an offsite clinic would save a fortune. My mom had a fall this summer and her AL place insisted she go to the ER as she had hit her head and was on blood thinners so needed to be checked out for internal bleeding. She was literally on a gurney in a hallway as the ER rooms were all full and the waiting room had no chairs left. Same - other than a couple of people who were clearly in pain and not feeling well, it looked like a regular doctor's office waiting room. Took 6 hours to get us in the door, waiting, get some tests run, and then waiting for results and was OK and cleared to return home. HAD she had internal bleeding, I am not sure it would have even been caught in time!
But this has never been a full-on research project for me - I just know that costs continue to spiral out of control, quality of care is declining while people are less healthy overall and it's headed for a crash.
Yes. We have to get people who don't have emergencies out of the ER and to a clinic. They should be routed to Public Health Clinics and those clinics should be funded with all the money that is going to Planned Parenthood to provide abortions not to provide healthcare. That would be a great start!
Oh I am aware that it is not an A or B choice - we need a C or a none of the above choice. But just sayin' when I get in arguments with libs over health care their go to is that healthcare should NOT be 'for profit' because it's a 'right'.
Oh I've read studies, papers and articles over the years that make sense around fixes - like pricing transparency, making health insurance like car insurance and un-mooring it from being an employee benefit where you are stuck with who your employer picks vs paying out the nose for your own policy. (where we are at right now, my hubby for now is calling himself retired at 61 after a layoff in September - we have a high deductible plan that is twice as expensive as his former employer that we have yet to use so no idea if it's any good or not)
I remember reading that surgical centers, which are more cost efficient and better outcomes than hospitals got froze (current could stay open but no new ones) during the Obamacare bill negotiations due to the lobbying of big Hospital chains who see them as eating into their margins that are used to help cover indigent care.
When my dad was in and out of the hospital in the years before he died in 2014, we had to come in thru the ER to see him if it was outside of visiting hours, and every time the waiting room was FULL. Given that many were sitting reading books, bringing knitting, etc. this was clearly NOT a true emergency. Just being able to divert uninsured people who use the ER as their PCP to an offsite clinic would save a fortune. My mom had a fall this summer and her AL place insisted she go to the ER as she had hit her head and was on blood thinners so needed to be checked out for internal bleeding. She was literally on a gurney in a hallway as the ER rooms were all full and the waiting room had no chairs left. Same - other than a couple of people who were clearly in pain and not feeling well, it looked like a regular doctor's office waiting room. Took 6 hours to get us in the door, waiting, get some tests run, and then waiting for results and was OK and cleared to return home. HAD she had internal bleeding, I am not sure it would have even been caught in time!
But this has never been a full-on research project for me - I just know that costs continue to spiral out of control, quality of care is declining while people are less healthy overall and it's headed for a crash.
Yes. We have to get people who don't have emergencies out of the ER and to a clinic. They should be routed to Public Health Clinics and those clinics should be funded with all the money that is going to Planned Parenthood to provide abortions not to provide healthcare. That would be a great start!
Yep, need to talk to the DOGE guys about this :-)