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LafayetteLady -> RE: A few points about Healthcare in the US (7/6/2012 11:32:26 AM)
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I didn't bother to read every post, most of it is senseless bickering anyway.
To the OP, now you go to a University Hospital with no co-pay? Great, good for you. You also get what is basically known as "treat and street" care. You would think a teaching hospital would give better care, but it is actually worse, and they use the excuse of how "busy" they are for a reason.
As many here know, I have been dealing with kidney issues for nearly a year (not including the failure last May). I went to a "University Hospital." It was an hour from my home, and if something came up when the "clinic" was closed, there was no one available to help you. Even if I drove, when having a kidney stone attack, driving is a bad idea. Driving an hour a worse one. Ambulances won't travel that far, so university hospital was useless.
Oh let's not forget that when I went to them doubled over in pain, they told me "tough, it will be taken care of when your surgery is scheduled (a month away)." Now add to that since I have kidney stone disease and this is an ongoing problem, when I have an attack, I can't get to the university hospital. First, it's too far of a ride to suffer that much pain, so I'm going to my local hospital. But wait, since they no longer have records of my most recent medical history, they really can't do much, so that's helpful.
I was lucky enough that my old urologist was willing to work out a financial arrangement with me that I can afford to have the issue taken care of. He isn't charging me a lot, and I know with proper insurance (or a huge bank account) it would cost a lot more, since a second surgery is needed. But I now have the comfort of a doctor who knows my history, is local, is on staff at a local hospital, doesn't believe in "treat and street," and was willing to do what it takes to get me better. He is also well respected in his field.
I have medicaid, and went to a medicaid doctor. He was a drunk (could smell it on him), refused to tell me the test results and really couldn't give a damn about my health care. So I pay out of pocket to go to my old doctor so I know I get decent care.
For those of you saying that poor people just have a bad luck of the draw? Go fuck yourselves, and I hope when you get sick, your insurance refuses to cover you. Without the hassles and the fights I have gone through to get the treatment I have, I probably would have been dead by now from lack of available treatment.
Hospitals ONLY have to treat ER patients, not people being admitted for surgery, so whatever idiot said they treat you without insurance has the brains of an ameoba.
The reason so many poor people remain poor is because as it stands now, everything is done to keep their quality of life at the barest minimum. I'm not talking computers, flat screen televisions and luxury apartments either. I'm talking access to decent medical care, and quality food. Sorry, but you can only eat so much cranberry sauce, peanut butter and tuna fish. Most poor people live on pasta, and yet so many of your dingbats say their weight and health problems are their own fault. Pasta is cheap, but not healthy. When your quality of life sucks and you have to choose to feed your family or get necessary medical care, most feed their family. This causes depression, and often medicaid tries to deny paying for anti-depressants unless they have been around for 50 years, rather than use the newer, more effective ones.
Balk about the cost of uninsured healthcare patients all you want, but everytime you do, you show how little you actually know about it.
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