Seems emergency and acute/hospital-based care is given lowest priority - agree?
In the current environment it appears the most time-pressured/critical care is the least profitable. Accurate?
I don’t know the reason(s) or the solution.
Nothing in my experience or review of history suggests a system completely administered/controlled by government would be better and suspect would br more wasteful, less responsive, and less efficient.
The “free market” system alone can’t provide the solution as health care is something we as a society provide everyone independent of ability to pay and it is expensive.
Can a better, continuously evolving government-private hybrid help meet our crises?
Grim situation, sir. Thank you for being on the frontlines caring for patients and raising awareness.
The reason we practitioners cannot solve the problem is that the problem lies in reimbursement. Hospitals lose money on admissions. They make money on outpatient surgery. So the hospitals reduce money and staff and beds for admissions. They build new surgery suites / centers. This problem was created by the Medicare folks in Washington. Maybe this is planned. What better way to get everyone to demand a government health care system?
But those wanting a centralized health care system are godless liberals. I can’t make anything compute anymore, Ed. What would happen if patients with mental illnesses weren’t part of those waiting?
Beyond worrisome.
Seems emergency and acute/hospital-based care is given lowest priority - agree?
In the current environment it appears the most time-pressured/critical care is the least profitable. Accurate?
I don’t know the reason(s) or the solution.
Nothing in my experience or review of history suggests a system completely administered/controlled by government would be better and suspect would br more wasteful, less responsive, and less efficient.
The “free market” system alone can’t provide the solution as health care is something we as a society provide everyone independent of ability to pay and it is expensive.
Can a better, continuously evolving government-private hybrid help meet our crises?
Grim situation, sir. Thank you for being on the frontlines caring for patients and raising awareness.
The reason we practitioners cannot solve the problem is that the problem lies in reimbursement. Hospitals lose money on admissions. They make money on outpatient surgery. So the hospitals reduce money and staff and beds for admissions. They build new surgery suites / centers. This problem was created by the Medicare folks in Washington. Maybe this is planned. What better way to get everyone to demand a government health care system?
But those wanting a centralized health care system are godless liberals. I can’t make anything compute anymore, Ed. What would happen if patients with mental illnesses weren’t part of those waiting?
Profits before heathy, stability, humanity
Try is the ballpark in which the disconnection from human and spiritual values lies
Thanks for your posts!