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who is this a problem for?
We donât know the specialist was just about to show up. it could have been much, much longer.
the fact that it âhappens everywhereâ IS the point. itâs 100% standard for patientsâ time to be considered worthless. thatâs exactly my point. if this were an isolated incident then your argument would make sense.
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Have you ever met the median patient?
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So your point is that people wait to see doctors in emergency rooms
Well I guess weâre done here
Sounds more like his point was that itâs pretty crazy to be asked to sit and wait for anywhere from like 1-10 hours to see a doctor (who knows!), and if you get fed up and leave before the doctor is available you get charged $900 for the privilege of sitting in the waiting room, and that there are financial incentives for providers/hospitals to operate the system in that way.
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I guess my sympathy with CN here is that if you have to pick something about the US healthcare system to complain about, bills sent to ironically impatient patients shouldnât be high up the list. Patients being annoying is actually a cost burden to a system that is already complicated enough to administrator as it is. I am admittedly biased because my spouse is a physician. Itâs very demoralizing to see her put so much work into something only to see patients Karen up the joint with consumer experience complaints.
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What was the burden to the hospital in this scenario? They paid for the time of the NP who actually treated the kid. I assume there was some admin who spent 5 minutes typing insurance info and putting on a fake smile for the parent. Who else is being burdened here, and how?
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Iâm spending the rest of the day in a mental health center for a polysomnograph.
I mean maybe the tests being done are covered under insurance that the center accepts but what if my doctor doesnât? Or if the nurses here are staff from some third-party subcontractor specializing in recruiting and placing nurses in different facilities. Or if food and water doesnât qualify as part of staying at the hospital. What if I decide to leave before the specialist sees me?
Oh wait. Iâm in a country where this shit doesnât matter. A place where this argument is completely foreign in both language and logic. Shit if America was close to fair it would be insane to have to read about this.
Iâm more than happy to have a percentage of my salary deducted for this. Yeah, it isnât a luxurious experience (beats the hell out of a typical Czech hospital though) but itâs a necessary one that I wouldnât have if I was living in America.
Acknowledged. All I can offer you is that based on my own limited knowledge of hospital administration these things are more burdensome than you might imagine. Health care record keeping is not like restaurant reservations, its actually a pain if people create appointments they donât keep and stuff like that.
this whole thing should be that âwe should improve society somewhatâ cartoon but the peasant is saying âwe should improve healthcare somewhatâ and ikes is popping out of the well saying YET YOU CONSUME HEALTHCARE, CURIOUS
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US healthcare prices are fucking crazy. Too many people making out like bandits.
Yeah, damn all those ill people wanting treatment at affordable prices.
whether they âlikeâ it or not isnât really the issue, this is another one of those dumb appeal to motivation things that ikeâs has been trying here. they arenât trying to change it, and the incentives are lined up against them trying to change it.
this would be a fair counterpoint if this were somehow a new development, but itâs not.
For the purpose of maximizing treatment, itâs most efficient to treat doctorsâ time as significantly more valuable than patientsâ time.
Sounds bad.
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Doesnât take cash payments for life saving procedures and insurance doesnât cover the transplant because the medical center isnât in their network.
âI want businesses to not have say over life saving treatments. I know itâs a stretch and itâs gonna be a⌠probably will never happen.â
USA! USA! USA!
Congress moving to cap travel nursing pay is a really fucking stupid idea
This is a thing?
Yup hasnât passed anywhere yet but bills are in the process in a lot of places